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welcome to the frontline: what's goin' on, down and around town.. With Vivian Huynh

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five things 1. Growing Up I have no brothers or sisters, my parents weren’t heavily into music and so I was essentially brought up listening to kids music. Kinda like the equivalent of only listening to older versions of The Wiggles and Hi-5 for the first few years of your life. I was taken to concerts and everything! I know I loved it at the time but I have a feeling being brought up on kids music is why I get suckered into a good poppy chorus every single time. On the other hand I was massively into books when I was little and I’m sure that is what has fed my love for words. I rebelled eventually when my father said I had to learn an instrument and I insisted on drums.

2. Inspirations As with most bands we have a big spread of artists that each of us are influenced by. A couple I’ll focus on here are Augie March and The Killers. Augie March not only write and

BILLY from DAYS LIKE STARS record spectacularly beautiful albums (see: Sunset Studies) but they manage to sound effortlessly unique and Australian without clichés. The Killers on the other hand have just exceptional songcraft. Every part of every song is purposeful and when the guitar hooks are just a catchy as the chorus melody you know you’re onto something good.

3. Your Band We’ve had our present line up for a year and a half or so. Toby our mischievous bass player, Andrew our flaming haired drummer and I had been kicking around as a three piece for five years before after meeting though in high school. AJ our finance guru/lead guitarist came on board and then we finally got focused. I’m the delicate, occasionally moody frontman.

4. The Music You Make We recorded our new EP ‘Fight the Sunset’ with Luke Hanigan and Dave Lumsdaine from Lo-tel at Dave’s house in the Blue Mountains. It was a hard and confronting process for us in every way. We were making lots of changes, a lot was expected of us and

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During Orientation Week at UTS, one of the first things we did was take a trip up the tower building to the 26th floor or something and check out the 2SER studios. And then we got all inspired about the media, etc etc and here we are to tell you to ‘support a higher frequency’ and become a 2SER Subscriber. Subscribe during the Radiothon and you get 2SER’s new “frequency” magazine, a Spunk compilation CD and 2ser key ring, and entry into the draw to win up to $50,000 worth of prizes, including an Intrepid Travel “Road to Angkor” Trip for two, two days recording/mixing at Big Jesus Burger Studios and more. Tune in at 107.3FM.

CRANKIN’ COUNTRY

Country rock – need we say more? After a spate of electro rave rock, indie fuck rock, pop rock, and whatever other combinations you can come up with, sometimes it’s nice to just sit back and soak up that old school grit. You can definitely get your fill of bluesy, boozy country when Crankin’ Country hits the Empire Hotel on Saturday – for 10 bucks you get Deadwood 76, Fat Dusty, The Ride Ons and Dandelion (Daniel from The Dolly Rocker Movement) on the one stage.

relationships were strained. A higher level of performance was demanded of us that we realised existed. However as a result of all of that we get to have a record that we are proud of and will be for the rest of our lives regardless its success.

5. Music, Right Here, Right Now The great thing about the Sydney scene is that like minded bands seem to really support one other instead of tearing each other down.

There no negative competitive spirit. Bands like The Forgotten Army, Midnight Swim and The Dawn Collective have always been ready and willing to help us out at any opportunity even when we were just starting out. Stuff like that should never be taken for granted.

MySpace is just gold to. The internet makes it so easy to make your music available and it’s weird to remind yourself that it wasn’t always like that.

Who: Days Like Stars Where: The Annandale Hotel When: Wednesday October 25 With: Lukes Cost: Free

CALIFONE

The critically acclaimed Califone are back with a brand new album entitled Roots & Crowns.

Having formed around 1998, the band have secured a massive underground following, and Roots & Crowns is set to catapult the band into the limelight thanks to gorgeous indie/folk melodies contained on this shiny round disc.

Thanks to those lovely folks at Inertia Records, we’ve got 2 copies of Califone’s Roots & Crowns album to give away. If you want to win a copy, just email freestuff@thebrag.com and tell us the name of the band that Califone frontman Tim Rutili used to be a member of.

TAPES FOR FREE BEER

Ok, so World Bar are doing a whole wall installation made up of cassette tapes as part of their renovations. Thing is they don’t have the 1000 or so old tapes that they need, so they’re asking for you to donate.

For a minimum of 20 old, scribbled on, even broken tapes that you bring in, they’ll shout you a jug of beer. And if you have a shitload more of them, then you can haggle for a shitload more beer as well. Contact trystan@ theworldbar.com for details.

JESSE YOUNAN

Streetlight Sunrise recalls that fragile moment of stillness and warmth in the morning, when the sun is coming up and all manner of thoughts of whimsy and fancy run through your mind. It’s also a common sight for us as we stumble home from a good night out, but we won’t talk about that. It happens to be the title of blues and roots artist Jesse Younan’s second album, and he’s launching it at The Basement Tuesday 24 October with special guests; $14 at the door.

INJETTISON

We could write some mildly entertaining blurb about Injettison’s upcoming activities, but we’ll just let them give it to you straight: “Every Wednesday night in October we’ll be letting it all hang out at the Excelsior. That’s 4 gigs to show off our new songs and as many chances for you to come out and have a boogie with us. Graham our bone player will be joining us for a few of them too so put your dancing shoes on and get those big beautiful voices primed. We’d love to see your smiley faces so bring your friends and their sisters and lets all be best friends together…”

WITH...

JIMMY,

FROM THE HOPETOUN

Chances are you’ve been served

by Jimmy Thomas, and noticed his snow-white hair and idiosyncratically perverted, dry sense of humor.

The Hopetoun Hotel is a Sydney indie music institution, and as one of its longest-serving bartenders, Jimmy is a familiar face to hundreds of music fans.

How did you get your job at The Hoey?

I remember looking in The Drum at the Hoey ad, checking for bands that I really wanted to see. Matt was working in the kitchen, and they asked me to do glasses. I was about 18 or 19, so that was about four years ago now.

What’s great about working there?

It’s a good way to keep in contact with everybody in the scene, and I’ve made lots of good friends through the pub. I enjoy the music mostly, when it’s not shithouse local bands. It’s a proving-ground for serious bands, and they seem happy to come back, too.

THE BEES

UK’s The Bees are an infectious lot who do that ‘60s rock pop thing really well. Which is all well and good, but the real clincher is their clip for track ‘Chicken Payback’. You know, the one with the Japanese dude in the video arcade who kills it at Dance Dance Revolution and kicks his shoe off and shit? Yep. We’re pretty sure that dude at the arcade won’t be coming with the band when they come here on 2 January to play the Forum, but it should be a good time nonetheless. Tickets are on sale Friday.

All those years hidden behind the drum kit, we never suspected the awesome extra talents of Taylor Hawkins (well, we kinda figured he was something special). With his band The Coattail Riders they’ve just released their debut CD, and it’s a rockin’ little LP. And we’ve got two copies of the album to give away. But that’s not all – we’ve got a Taylor Hawkins & The Coattail Riders t-shirt to go with each CD, so you can look as fashionable as the members themselves. To grab this pack, all ya gotta do is email freestuff@thebrag.com and tell us which members are the Coattail Riders. It’s that simple! Taylor Hawkins & The Coattail Riders’ new self titled album is out now on Inertia Recordings through Inertia

play their EP launch this Friday 20 October with Sound Casino and The Holidays at Candy’s Apartment.

INFADELS

WITH

TAYLOR HAWKINS & THE COATTAIL RIDERS

INFADELS

Infadels from the UK have this particular track, ‘Jagger 57’, which is the slamming slice of electro rave rock or whatever buzz THE INCHES words you want to piece together. But every Melbourne’s The Inches offer a musical time we hear it we go slightly mad, because experience that’s “like having sex in a steam it spirals incessantly in pounding waves room with The Who”, apparently. And that – and we mean that in the good sense, not particular nugget, coupled with a press the chilling sense. If you still don’t know shot of four black-clad boys – one shirtless, what we’re on about, you should see for another with an afro, and all with blank down yourself when they play the Gaelic Club on the barrel rooock stares – is a rather chilling 18 November with Dance With Voices and image indeed. Go along and hear the rock The Ghosts. and roll meltdown for yourself when they

Any good rock and roll stories?

I remember Tim Rogers put his shoulder out in Orange, and still played the show at The Hopetoun the night afterwards. He came up to me with teary eyes, asked me for a bottle of Jack Daniels, and gave me a big hug.

What’s the best way to get served fast at The Hopetoun?

The best thing you can do is smile politely and acknowledge that the barstaff are always right. We have a reputation for being the rudest staff in Sydney, and that’s something I’ve tried to pass on.

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welcome to the frontline: what's goin' on, down and around town.. With Vivian Huynh

5 things WITH 1. Growing Up Five older brothers who were keen music fans – Kinks, Beatles, Zep, Brother Jack MacDuff, Cat Stevens, Deep Purple, Stones, Leon Russel, Cream, Manfred Mann, Freddie King (the Texas Cannonball) and more – I soaked it all up. My mum was a great pianist, taught by the nuns, used to play dances and such like during the 2nd world war (she was 40 when I was born) dad was a a theatre organ enthusiast, bought a Hammond L100 and Leslie speaker when I was 10, grew up on that thing. They had records by Louis Armstrong, Peggy Lee, Nat King Cole, Mitch Miller, all timeless stuff. When I was twelve I was in to Jimi Hendrix and Jose Feliciano. Wasn’t the rebellious type, they let me do stuff, my brother Tim and I had a music room (Hammond, piano, drum kit etc) where we could pretty much hack away at our leisure, in my mid teens I learnt enough about the mechanics of music in that room to sustain me for 20 years.

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MANNING BAR

BRENDAN GALLAGHER have worked with before on other projects.

His rhythm is unimpeachable, he dresses smartly (in the modern style) and he makes me laugh. Stu Hunter arranged horns and strings, Lucky Oceans and Charlie Owen contributed pedal steel and guitar magic, David McCormack had a yodel, Dave Symes and Sam Dixon looked after bass, Cameron Bruce played some joanna, Jimmy Little lent me his majesty on a track, Bernie Hayes, Genevieve Maynard & Bow Campbell did choir duties, Chris Townend recorded the drums with craft and passion at BJB and I recorded the rest and mixed it with alacrity at the studio that Gareth ‘Gigpiglet’ Stuckey and I share in Redfern.

This is my solo debut.

sometimes they would show live footage of BB King just SMOKIN’ with his band. These guys were really in the zone, don’t care what they were wearing.

3. Your Band Just me luvvy, done the band thing with Karma County and Dead Marines and others over the years but this time it’s just dj old Brendo soft rockin’ in the free world…..

4. The Music You Make Styles? ‘One Eve St’ is a patchwork of stories about the everyday characters who bounce along on the evening tide of urban life. There are detours into the church of McCartney/Lennonism, candles lit for veterans of melody Nick Lowe and ELO, homage paid to rhythm’n’rhyme touchstones Steely Dan. I was aided and abetted admirably by co-producer and drummer/percussionist Felix Bloxsom who I

2. Inspirations McCartney (a much mis-understood genius), Ry Cooder, Nick Lowe, Miles Davis, Steely Dan. The Beatles are inescapable. I remember seeing Ry for the first time on a program called GTK which screened for 10 minutes before the 7pm news on ABC TV. Him playing slide guitar, a band and three old black gospel singers doing harmonies – outstanding! And

free stuff Ever been to the Manning Bar at Sydney University? Well, it’s one of the best venues in our fair town, and has played host to a huge number of international and Australian bands, comedians and a slew of crazy Uni parties (nobody parties like a Uni kid!). Well, how’s this for a giveaway – we’re giving one lucky Brag reader the chance to win a Manning Bar season pass which allows you and a guest to attend any event on at the Manning Bar until the end of Semester 1 2007! To get your hands on this prize, email freestuff@thebrag. com and tell us why you deserve to win the season pass!

5. Music, Right Here, Right Now Healthy, much better than 10 years ago, people seem genuinely interested in watching someone make some music right there in front of them, it’s the one thing you can’t copy or burn, an experience.

Don’t know so much about seeing anything recently that did my head in but have heard some inspiring things… The Sleepy Jackson’s newie, I think Luke Steele is Special with a capital S, George Byrne’s Who: Brendon Gallagher Where: The Basement When: Wednesday October 18

AIR CHARTS AWARDS

The AIR Charts Awards celebrate those who have hiked their way up the Air Australian independent music charts, under the categories Best Performing Independent Album, Best Performing Independent Single/ EP, Independent Artist Of The Year, and Most Outstanding New Independent Artist. Nominees will be announced this Thursday in Melbourne – put in your bets now - while the awards ceremony itself takes place 29 November at Blackett Hotel, Sydney.

IOTA

COCA-COLA LIVE N LOCAL

So you’re underage and you’re gagging for live music, but those instores aren’t really doing it for you anymore – not surprising. You’ll probably find yourself at the Coca-Cola Live N Local tour, because Evermore, The Veronicas, End Of Fashion, After The Fall and The Hot Lies are playing, and heaven knows that’s a face melting lineup for excitable teens nationwide (The Veronicas factor is doing it for us, personally). Final release tix are on sale via coca-cola.com.au until this Friday, and it’s on November 4 at Acer Arena.

WOLF AND CUB

REGURGITATOR

iOTA went under the musical radar for a while.

True, he did get all kitted up at Hedwig for Headwig And The Angry Inch musical, but we mean he’s been absent from the iOTA world NATIONAL for a bit. It’s likely he was also tucked away PORNOGRAPHIC working on his album Beauty Queen Of The Here’s Dave with an announcement: “With a Sea, but that’s all done now, so he’s ready to tour it around the place. Catch him live when he sound like no other National Pornographic are set to do a heap of shows in their hometown, plays October 26 at The Vanguard, and 29 at Sydney! The boys are back from their eastcoast The Brass Monkey. tour promoting their debut album Now You’re One Of Us. The first show will be at The Marquee Saturday 21st October, with Miss Anthropic and Charlie McMahon on a DigeriBone!” Okay Dave, hand back the mic now…

EVERMORE

IOTA

THE VINES

BE HEARD

This week is the start of competition Nokia Be Heard to find some new Australian unsigned artists. And before you get all ‘corporate sellout – pfft’ on us, just know that the main prize is $10 000 cash AND a $10 000 filmclip that’ll get a run on MTV – yes. Be Heard is open to any producer, artist, band or singer doing indie, rock, dance, electronic, RnB, hip hop and/or pop. For full details and to enter, head to music. nokia.com.au. One more thing: make sure you can play that shit live. Go on then…

Homebake is sold out, so if you don’t have tickets then this second announcement will probably just make you run to a corner and weep uncontrollably. Avert your eyes: Something For Kate, The Vines, Wolf & Cub, British India, Macromantics, Children Collide, Red Riders, Something With Numbers, Nfa, Jen Cloher and The Endless Sea, Ground Components, The Valentino’s, Mountains In The Sky, Die! Die! Die!, Tucker B’s, Tom Cooney, The Basics, The Vaine and Whiskey Go Go’s will join the others at the Domain on 2 December.

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ELECTRIC AT GASWORKS

If you live out west then it’s a pain in the arse to get to see live music regularly. The trek out, stumbling to the bustop at 3am before cramming onto a Nightride with 17 drunken yobbos – a chilling experience for all involved.

So we’re quite excited to hear the Albion Hotel in Parramatta (cnr George & Harris Sts) are launching Electric At Gasworks a weekly Thursday night. It kicks off on the October 26 with Regurgitator (live) plus DJ sets from Pinky Tuscadero, PhDJ (Purple Sneakers, Rebel, Rebel) and Knife (Pash).

NATIONAL PORNOGRAPHIC

HOMEBAKE

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music you dance to welcome to the frontline: what's goin' on, down and around town.. With Vivian Huynh

5 things WITH 1.Growing Up I gotta say, I can’t thank my parents for any musical inspiration, mum kinda rolls with Enya, Pet Shop Boys, Everything But The Girl etc and Dad was not much better, Dire Straits, Richard Clayderman. He did have a few hip records, bit of Rod Stewart’s early gear, Clapton, The Shadows. My older Bro Travis was the real influence, I used to steal his records every day after school, at the risk of multiple wedgie’s or Chinese burns. Pixies, Tom Petty, Nirvana…lotta punk rock, rock n roll, grunge…The first record I bought was G n R’s- Appetite For Destruction. Me and Trav wagged school and burned to target on our bmx’s and went halvie’s. I haven’t done anything that cool since.

2. Inspirations A lot of my favourite musicians are friends, or people I play with. Melbourne has so many fantastic musical niches and musicians; it is really inspiring to see any band/artist, doing what they do well, with conviction, pure and simple. I like the knife’s edge so to speakTom Waits, Melvins, Charles Mingus, Medeski Martin and Wood. As a bass player I really get into funk, swing, old r ‘n b, stuff like that. Our drummer Craig, has a great feel, and love, for a lot of black American music, he has opened my ears to a lot of awesome sounds.

3.Your Band Our band is a five piece, Nick Vorrath, Luke

GIRL TALK

4.The Music You Make Our style, like most bands these days, is a gumbo of different influences, made superior by welding them together, sharpening things up with some speed stripes, and a streamlined aerodynamic design. Influences- Los Lobos, Tom Waits, Medeski Martin n Wood, Ross Hannaford, Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green), Grant Green, Gilian Welch, Latin Playboys.

We have 3 releases out, the Peace E.p, Where Do They Go E.P, and the current disc Merchant Songs.

Merchant Songs is the first chance we have had to write and record as a band.

Stylistically, it’s a natural progression from the last 2 ep’s, probably a more full sound, and still bouncing between folk, hip hop and between. Radio has received it really well,

LIBERATED CITIZENS

We used to have a board game called Girl Talk.

It was pink and turquoise and totally ‘80s, and there were these trading cards with different guys and girls on them, and you were supposed to arrange dates to the skating rink and the movies with them. Good times! So to find that Girl Talk is also the DJ moniker of some dude deprived us of our innocence a little. Luckily Soulwax loves him and shit, so we give him props. See Girl Talk when he plays 7 December at Bar Broadway with Muscles and Sleater Brockman.

MySpace hype – never a bad thing. We heart MySpace! And Liberated Citizens is caught up in all the buzz. Of course, buzz when you haven’t played your debut gig yet can turn the best of us cynical – thankfully these kids are doing their debut show like right now before it all gets out of hand. They’ll be performing tracks from their 2006 masterpiece Y’All Ready For This, their second release on Shit Pudding Records. They’re playing with Quick 50, The Hot Box and The Savage Gardeners at the Palace Hotel, Surry Hills this Friday.

SONNY WHARTON

DJ KRUSH

Browse through UK house DJ Sonny Wharton’s resume and it’s more than a case of the raised eyebrow. He’s done guest mixes for Radio 1, Ministry Of Sound Radio and The Galaxy Network, as well as festival gigs at Godskitchen Global Gathering, Tribal Weekender and Glastonbury – shiiiiiit. Luckily for you he’s making a trip out here in March, so you can see his face launch into some mixing skills – your face may or may not remain intact.

Of course, you want to know ‘When! When!

When!’ But we’re going to be a tease and let you know – soon.

DJ Krush, straight out of Japan, has been at it for 12 odd years – doing movie soundtracks, forming production collective <RYU> with DJ HIDE & DJ SAK, and roping in guest vocalist duties from The Roots, Mos Def, Zap Mama, CL Smooth, Company Flow, Esthero, RINO & TWIGY and Aesop Rock. Needless to say, his reputation precededs him. Now he’s coming here for an Australian tour, playing the Forum on December 2, tix on sale now.

NYE HARBOUR PARTY

Carl Cox. This guy must be practically an Australian citizen by now right? He has been down under to regale us with his tricks more ALBION HOTEL times then I can poke a (glow) stick at. He’s So Parramatta’s Albion Hotel has just prettied back again, but this time for the extra special up itself and is ready for you to bring the party.

NYE event Harbour Party which takes place in But if that’s too much pressure, they’re going the iconic surrounds of Luna Park. Joining Cox to help you out a little with Funktrust DJsWill in the big top are The Presets, Mark Dynamix Styles & Learned Hand, Elroy and MC and the UK’s Eric Powell. On the other stages Antidote, Moneyshot, Cool Hand Luke, and Kid Confucius (live) on Friday October 20, and you will find Sneaky Sound System, Alan Stephen Allkins, Love, Cardboard Funk with Thompson, Ivan Gough and Bang Gang. We don’t need to give you the date, but tickets go Brendan Fing & Husky, Kemuri and James on sale for this monster event on October 16 Taylor & MC Losty on Saturday. Yeeesssssss and you must be over 18 to attend. Hop to it!

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THE CUSTOM KINGS

Gale, Eugene Wheelahan, Craig Shanihan and me, Jarrad Brown. We’ve been gigging for about …2 and a half years. I joined the band after doing a couple of fill in gigs for a mates band, with Craig on drums, and he asked me to come down and have a jam with the kings. “Sure” I said “sure I’ll come for a jam, I’d love to have a jam” then we jammed for 14 days straight. By the end, we had a few songs. Sick.

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and there are more and more heads at the shows, which is really encouraging.

5. Music, Right Here, Right Now Melbourne is lucky, we seem to have the best deal, as far as music scenes go in Australia.

Myspace is a great phenomenon for bands, really makes networking and advertising easy. Aussie Bands I’m digging at the moment- Little red, Dynamo, Hotel Diablo, The Offcutts, My Disco, Dan Sultan. Its always gonna be a struggle to make cash as a muso, especially in Australia, low population, and radio only being required to play 10% local content are big factors.

Pokies and noise restrictions have riddled Sydney’s music scene which is sad. I try not to think about that stuff, just rock as hard as you can so you don’t die wondering.

Who: The Custom Kings Where: Beach Road Hotel, Bondi When: October 22

It’s coming into the hot summer months, and what better way to relax than with the Ministry of Sound’s Chillout Sessions 9 double CD. It features a range of Aussie artists including Gotye, Angus & Julia Stone, The Sleepy Jackson and Kisschasy as well as a slew of international acts including Camille, Thom Yorke, Gomez, Chicken Lips, Annie and Hot Chip, just to name a few. We’ve got 5 copies to giveaway, so to win just email freestuff@thebrag.com and tell us your greatest remedy to beat the summer heat.

THE PROCUSSIONS

Just their name alone makes you wanna get up and groove! The Procussions is a three piece hip-hop outfit out of LA. If you’re tired of all the usual rap suspects, then The Procussions and their album 5 Sparrows for 2 Cents, released and distributed through Inertia Records, is the remedy for you. The band are the first signing for legendary US label Rawkus Records after a long hiatus. And we’ve got three copies of 5 Sparrows for 2 Cents to give away to lucky Brag readers. If you want to win yourself a copy, email freestuff@thebrag.com and tell us what the name of The Procussions’ debut LP was.

LIGHTSOUNDS

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BUMP Send in your resume with a covering letter by email to employment@lightsounds.com or fax it A message from Bump: BUMP kicks off for another instalment on Sat October 21. Thanks to 02 9718 5900 to the Stick Figures for comin’ down and droppin’ their magic last time. Sorry about the power failures – there will be no repeat this time! DJ’s on the night droppin funkified and rollin tech beats in the courtyard are Deep Child, Claire, Defcon 1 and the BUMP DJ’s.

Dirtyfying the dancefloor inside with get yo jit on hip hop and backdoor, backup dancehall riddims are Jonah, Good Decisions, Trip Trix and Bentley. Its $10 all night, there’s cheap drinx, sterling sound systems and the sickest tunez!!! Should be another BUMP spectacular…

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Going out for a cause? Now you can! Chill out, hang with friendly people, drink, eat, and feed the soul with sounds and vision - all while helping to protect civil liberties @ a fundraiser for the Legal Observers Project. The LOP helps safeguard the right to protest - much needed in this age of sedition laws on steroids!

There will be yummo food by JP of Creative Dissent, fun and cruisey tunes courtesy of DJs, Jim and Jam. Visuals mixed and served with love by international VJ, .M. (London) This goes down on Wed October 18 from 7.30pm at the Abercrombie.

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Alt-rockers Nick Cave (Mushroom Music), Iva Davies of Icehouse (EMI Songs Australia), Warren Ellis of (Mute Song) and David Bridie (Mushroom Music) are among nominees for the APRA-AGSC Screen Music Awards.

They’re up against established film composers as Burkhard Dallwitz (unsigned) and Michael Yezerski (Native Tongue Music) who received three noms each. The awards, organised by the Australasian Performing Right Association and the Australian Guild of Screen Composers, are held November 6 in Sydney.

Also up for their TV work: Roger Mason (exModels) and Chris Harriott (ex-Scandal).

IFPI: GL OBAL MUSIC BIZ SHRINKS

Expecting: Sydney nightclub Loft’s marketing manager Camille Baturo and Foxtel onair talent Pete Timbs, in April.

Born: son James to 2DAY FM’s morning jock Dave Williams.

In Court: rapper DMX for driving an unregistered car without a driver’s licence.

Investigated: Michigan police say they will not press domestic violence charges against Eminem, following reports he was involved in a dispute with his niece and estranged wife Kim. Died: French jazz musician Claude Luter, 83.

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PUTTING OUT THE CHALLENGE

JB HI FI LAUNCHES DOWNLOAD SITE

JB Hi Fi has teamed with Destra for its new digital store at www.jbhifimusic.com.au which offers 1.5 million tracks and 84,000 acts.

Individual tracks start at $1.69 each, and albums starting from $16.95. The retail chain also launched a music gift card at $10, $20 and $50. JB Hi Fi has 62 stores, but plans to open 12 more in regional Australia.

The Sydney Performer Challenge is offering a $2,000 cash prize for Sydney’s best unsigned acts, as well as 45-minute live slots for eight finalists at the Glebe Street Fair on Nov 19 before 120,000 with Sarah McLeod and John Morrison’s Swing City. To enter the competition submit two digital audio files (one must be an original work) with entry form before November 3. See www.glebestreetfair. com.au

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Sydney columnist Murray Engleheart’s long awaited book on AC/DC arrives next week through Harper Collins. It is thoroughly researched, and chapters on the early days in Australia are worth the price of admission.

So is the look at Bon Scott’s final day, the mystery surrounding his death, and AkkaDakka’s wish list for his replacement, including the Small Faces’ Steve Marriott, John Swan, Jimmy Barnes, and Slade’s Noddy Holder.

Engleheart’s reputation as a global writer got him to people who refuse to go on record, including road crews.

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The Australian Independent Record Labels Association (AIR) will hold its inaugural AIR Charts Awards on November 29 in Sydney.

The first event will have only four categories — best performing indie album, indie single/EP, indie artist of the year and most outstanding new artist. The nominations are selected

by AIR’s board. Artists are eligible if on an Oz owned indie label and also distributed through an Oz owned distribution company.

Stu Watters, AIR’s Brisbane-based CEO tells us, “We want to bring them to the attention of retailers, the media, the public and to the corporate sponsors who have shown interest in getting involved in the indie section.”

The digital music business grew 106% worldwide in the first half of 2006 from the same period last year, and now worth US$945 million. According to new figures from the IFPI, digital sales are now 11% of recorded music sales, up from 5.5% in Dec 2005. But global shipments of physical CDs shrank by 10%, down 4% from the first half of 2005. The global music biz is worth US$8.4 billion. Some markets showed growth: Japan (12%), South Korea (5%) and Australia (6%). But Germany was down by 4%, the US (-7%) and France (-9%).

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WE HEAR

• Bob Dylan is returning in March, Bob Seger is eying his first trip to Oz and Tim Finn returns for a full tour in February.

• The first Ian Rilen benefit in Melbourne raised $40,000. Chrissie Amphlett jammed with the Gurus on ‘I’ll Make You Happy’, and Thorpie and the Tatts did their thing together, and Steve Lucas playing X songs and a version of John Lennon’s ‘Mother’. Rilen was too ill to attend.

• Macquarie Regional Radio has warned it’d close 10 stations if new local content requirements are introduced.

• Justin Hawkins has left The Darkness to focus on his rehab: he went through a 5 gms $2500 a day cocaine habit.

• Zakk Wilde and Black Label Society got 1,000 at an in-store and turned 300 people away at a show in Melbourne.

• The satirical crikey.com.au site is offering a new free download a week: first is Sean Kelly’s unplugged version of ‘I Hear Motion’.

• Perth is considering whether to introduce metal detectors in its nightclubs.

• Brazin (Sanity, HMV, Virgin) got its millionth member of its customer loyalty program Pulse launched 18 months ago.

KELLY, CATS, WIN FINE AWARDS

At the third Fine Arts Awards, Paul Kelly and Dan Luscombe took best soundtrack for director Ray Lawrence’s Jindabyne; twenty years ago, Kelly introduced Lawrence to the works of Raymond Chandler. The Necks took best jazz record for Chemist, Richard Tognetti took best classical for his interpretation of Bach’s solo violin works, and The Cat Empire’s the world category for Cities: The Cat Empire Project, a homage to their hometown of Melbourne. The awards were held at magnificent Verbrugghen Hall at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

Perth weekly “base.ad” becomes a monthly from December. Gossip mag “OK!” is going from a monthly to a weekly. A new free monthly hip hop/R&B publication “Rhyme & Reason” has hit the streets with a print run of 20,000. “Urban Hitz” is closing with editor Simone Kapsalides moving to New York.

“Rolling Stone” is launching Rolling Stone Live, putting on four shows a year.

CHUGGY

HONOURED

Promoter Michael Chugg returned to Hobart as patron of the Amplified conference. At the launch of the event, which included the Tasmanian music awards, he impulsively announced he would next year donate a $2,000 prize to whomever did the most to market Tasmanian music outside the island.

Chugg was part of “Bald And The Beautiful”, a Parkinson-type panel interview, where he recalled how his early career as a horse racing broadcaster came to an end when he got so excited he dropped the magic word on radio, and his run-ins with clients like Frank Sinatra who wanted to cancel a tour midway when a review said Sammy Davis Jr blew him off the stage.

WHAT NOW FOR YOUTUBE?

What now for Google after it’s bought US video/film file sharing site YouTube for US$1.65 billion (A$2.2 billion) last week?

YouTube is one of the big success stories, with 72 million users after a year in operation.

But it has not been a money maker, as such.

Google thinks it can make a lot of dosh by selling advertising. But how advertisingfriendly is the stuff on YouTube? The other problem is, YouTube doesn’t have the copyright on its content. Now that Google has taken over, can you imagine the copyright lawyers rubbing their hands in glee? The record companies were planning to sue some weeks back but have decided to work with an important site by putting their videos on to reach that huge market, with YouTube young founders launching deals with labels this year.

Will other advertisers think the same way?

NOTHING MISERABLE ABOUT STARKY

Starky’s new UK single ’Is This How It Ends’ is getting airplay on Zane Lowe’s radio show in London. Their UK label Loog/Universal pitched it for use in 3Mobile. It was almost dumped when 3Mobile thought that the line “these miserable times won’t leave me alone” was “the miserable cunts won’t leave me alone”.

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FESTIVAL MADNESS

At the time of writing, it looks like the Sydney Big Day Out has sold out after less than 12 hours on sale. Rumour has it organisers are looking at adding a second show (just in- not true at all, there are however an extra 10,000 tickets for sale to be released at a later date.

Kirsty). And Victorian NYE festival Pyramid Rock, which has struggled with ticket sales in the past, sold out in record time - 15 days - this year. Headlining Pyramid are festival stalwarts Silverchair and The Living End - solid acts, but not exactly hot new things. As things stand, it looks like a would-be promoter could announce a show in their backyard with no acts and tickets at $200 and still sell out. There’s no doubt the festival industry is in the middle of a boom. But what’s driving it?

And how long can it last. Promoters say there are two main factors behind quick sell-outs: the fact people know a festival will sell out and the fear of scalping. The first creates a self-fulfilling prophecy, as punters scramble to purchase tickets as quickly as possible. And the second feeds into the first. The actual number of scalped tickets in the aftermarket - ie eBay - is actually very small relative to the total tickets sold, but they are highly visible and their high price tags help create the impression demand for tickets is enormous, which in turn drives actual demand. But the boom is not sustainable indefinitely. Bad festival experiences or even bad experiences with trying to get tickets - timeouts on websites, long queues and the like - can turn people off quickly. And the threat of scalping means that next year more festivals will turn to more restrictive ticketing methods, making punters jump through more hoops. At least one festival will next year move to the system Homebake used this year: tickets with names printed on them and ID checked at the gate.

Balloting, which is used by folk festivals who have been dealing with sellout issues for years, is another option under consideration.

While these methods will squash a lot of scalping - Homebake is almost scalper-free - they will also unfortunately make it more of a hassle for real music fans to get tickets. This summer will be a cash bonanza for music festival promoters. But they’d be wise not to count on repeating the achievement next year.

NO YOUTH FOR TELSTRA

If you were watching television Sunday night before last, you can’t have missed the new Telstra ad spruiking their new Next G mobile service. The ad features The Beatles ‘Hello Goodbye’ sung by a bloke who sounds an awful lot like Youth Group’s Toby Martin. But it isn’t. “It ain’t him but heaps of people have said it sounds like him,” says James Roden of Youth Group’s management, Winterman & Goldstein. “I guess it’s a compliment?” So who is it? The ad was made by agency George Patterson Y&R, who in turn contracted Sydney ad music house Nylon Studios to produce the music. “The arrangement was done here by Elliott Wheeler and the vocalist was one of our regular session guys, Mark Beckhaus,” says Nylon Studios producer Emma Hoy. (Fun fact: Beckhaus is on the list of “lost artists” that phono royalty society PPCA can’t find. Why not try giving him a call care of Nylon?)

JET FAILS TO FIRE

The second album from Melbourne rockers Jet has failed to debut at number one, despite record company EMI shipping more units of Shine On into shops than the titles that beat it. The top three albums last week were all on debut: Evanescence’s The Open Door (Sony BMG), at number one; The Killers’ Sam’s Town (Universal) at number two; and Shine On at number three. Both The Open Door and Sam’s Town are accredited gold by ARIA, meaning they’ve shipped over 35,000 units into shops. But Shine On has been accredited platinum, for 70,000 units into shops. The chart, meanwhile, is compiled on the basis of actual sales through to customers - so there are a lot of shops out there with a lot of unsold Jet records. Actual sales of Shine On were around 15,000, compared to 22,000 for Evanescence and 19,000 for The Killers.

And the record would not have done any better were sales through the Brazin group of retailers, which quit the ARIA chart earlier this year, were included. If compilation records are excluded, as they are on the ARIA chart, both of Brazin’s retailers - Sanity and HMV - also

Jay-Z had Shine On at number three. Meanwhile, Shine On debuted at number 16 on the US albums chart, selling around 51,000 units.

JAY-Z DENIED

Superstar rapper Jay-Z’s world tour has run into a Chinese wall: a show scheduled for 23rd October at the Hongkou Football Stadium in Shanghai has been banned by the Chinese government due to vulgar language.

He’s still on for shows in Australia later this month.

FBI PODCAST

Sydney community broadcasters FBI have jumped on the podcast bandwagon. They’re offering fully licensed Australian music podcast Beforecast for download from www. fbi.org.au. FBI says the podcast is “one of the first licensed music podcasts in Australia” - it’s not the first, though, as dance website Inthemix have been offering dance music podcasts under license since the start of the year. Commercial broadcasters Austereo also offer a music podcast - but they don’t have a license to play full tracks and so are restricted to 30 second snippets.

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Megadeth The Gigantour hits the road… look out! By Justin Donnelly

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be doing on Halloween when we get back from the Australian tour, so we may just sneak in a second new song just for the Australian fans.

It’s sort of the same thing we did with ‘My Last Words’ (The rarely played track from 1986’s Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying?) the last time we were down there. I’ve never been a con or a cheat when it comes to my music. I’ve always It’s been eighteen months since they last visited been really gracious and loving to the fans, and treated them fairly as I can. And my Australian Australian shores (Back in April 2005 on their fans are no different. If you’re any kind of fan Looking beyond the U.S., Mustaine has decided ‘Blackmail The Universe World Tour’), and according to Mustaine, another tour of Australia you know that. So I’m just getting on and doing to bring Gigantour down to Australia for three my thing and having fun.” is well overdue. dates, with Swedish melodic death metal act Arch Enemy, metalcore act Caliban and Speaking of new material, according to “I’ve always found Australia to be quite a Brazilian tribal/nu-metal giants Soulfly joining Mustaine, Megadeth’s upcoming album United misunderstood country. People don’t realise headliners Megadeth on the star studded Abominations (which is due to be released that it has all the beauty and charm of bill. As Gigantour pulls into North Carolina, I England, but the sex appeal of being at Venice through Roadrunner Records) is almost caught up with the relaxed and peaceful Dave complete. “There’s a couple of little things that Beach. The people there are all healthy and Mustaine to discuss the release of Megadeth’s need to be finished, but as soon as they’re good looking. I also love that mentality your new album and their impending return to done, we’ll start mixing it. What I can tell you government has, which is ‘Well if you don’t Australian shores with Gigantour. though is that this new album isn’t anything like want to be Australian, then get the fuck out!’

The System Has Failed (which was released “Gigantour is about the spirit of heavy metal, not Bravo! That’s Dave Mustaine like politics right there. I’m so happy to be coming back, because in 2004 though Sanctuary Records). I love this just Megadeth. It’s not about Dave Mustaine. album! This album makes my nipples so hard Australia really is a fantastic country.”

It’s not about any one band. It’s about metal. you could use them to cut glass. I’m totally And the fans understand that. Gigantour has excited by this album. But having said that, Much like their last tour, it would seem that been fantastic and beautiful. We’ve seen I’m not going to tell you what it sounds like, Australian fans could expect a couple of fans sacrificing cattle and young critters, so because if I say it sounds like this, you’re only surprises with Megadeth’s return this time everything’s been perfect. And that Gigantour going to say that it sounds like that. We should around too. spirit is so dominant in Australia. Australia’s just sit down, have a couple of drinks and listen a very hardcore country, with a huge number to it together. It’s only then that know what I’m “Well, we’re going to play some more of the of metal enthusiasts. They deserve this. It’s talking about, and I catch watch as the album older songs, but we’re going to do some stuff been a long time coming for fans down there socks you in the face! (Laughs)” off the new album as well. Hopefully we’ll be to have a festival that’s pure metal, without the bullshit. They need the real deal, and you know doing a little more off the new album than what we have so far. So far, we’ve only played And more importantly, it actually has a release what? I’m just the kind of guy to help them get date. “United Abominations will be released it together. We’re getting into partnerships with 'Washington Is Next'. There’s a concert we’ll igantour, the roaming metal festival conceived and brought to life by Megadeth vocalist/guitarist Dave Mustaine as an alternative to the rather stale and predictable Ozzfest, was a huge success on it’s first run from July through to September in 2005, and with its 2006 return run, the alternative tour is unanimously being hailed as an even bigger triumph.

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the promoter down there right now to make Gigantour an annual thing. This is something that’s going to continue on every year now.

We only have a couple more shows to go and then we’re heading down your way. The Big Day Out will soon become the small day out motherfuckers!”

in March. I hate those phrases which say sometime early next year, maybe, could, unknown, as of yet and temporarily. If I have to get out there like The Naked Cowboy (who is otherwise known as Robert Burck) in Times Square (New York) and sing in my underwear, this album will be released in March. While there’s a lot of girls that would line up to see me singing in my underwear, I would like to avoid that and see the album come out officially.”

In regards to the future, Mustaine’s plan for Megadeth are centred around the planning of a third Gigantour festival, which will include another visit from the band. “As soon as we finish the Australian tour, we’ll head home and finish up the few bits and pieces left to do on United Abominations ready for its official release. Then we’ll be heading out on tour once again around March with the third Gigantour festival. As it stands, Megadeth won’t be the headliner. Right now, I’m not too sure who will headline. So until I know, I’ll be a bit of a mystery. But having said that, we’ll be headliners for the Australian Gigantour next year, and it’s safe to say that we’re already looking forward to that!”

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Australian Music Prize Talking with organiser Scott Murphy By Christie Eliezer

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s with most things in the music industry, it was down to timing. In 2001, former Zomba Records boss and one time dance promoter Scott Murphy came up with the idea of the Australian Music Prize, as an Australian version of Britain’s Mercury Prize. To Murphy, awards by ARIA, APRA and MTV, based on sales and popularity, are all and good. But he wanted something that was based on quality and creativity. The execs that he approached were ho-hum about it, so he shelved the idea. When he revived the idea four years later, it was a different story.

“Earlier on, I don’t think the Mercury Prize was that well known in Australia,” Murphy says. “But in the interim, the Mercury started to get astronomical publicity. People realised that Australians were going out and buying records that ended in the shortlist.”

He had not one knock back. The music industry had realised that it had become mature enough to support a prize like this, and volunteered their services as judges or as sponsors. The PPCA, which licences 43,000 organisations around the country to play music in public, donated the prize of $25,000.

Last Years Winners The Drones

Over 221 artists entered their albums to be judged by 66 execs from all sectors of the biz. The Shortlist8 included Ben Lee, The Go Betweens, Wolfmother and Tex, Don & Charlie. The Drones’ Wait Long By the River and The Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By won. Winning was a turning point for them, suggests Murphy. “When they won, I thought it would be interesting because they were a band that shied away from the mainstream media and from the music industry. I wasn’t sure how they’d deal with it, but at least they would have $25,000.

But that changed, because I was absolutely knocked out by the coverage given by the media. The Drones got on the ‘Today’ show, on Page 3 of major newspapers, and in ‘Who Weekly’. It increased their profile 1000% times.

They sold more records, their shows began to sell out in Melbourne and Sydney, and people knew them overseas. Not bad for a band that 60% of the judges had probably never heard of.

For a band to come from that level and win is one thing. But to change their career is a whole different thing.”

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The Drones singer Gareth Liddiard would later say, “Why settle for puppet shows pretending there is good music when there actually IS good music? The Amp is for people who like music.

Anything else is just bullshit.” Did Murphy cop anything negative about the acts which were chosen? “A world music band wrote to say they were disappointed because they thought it was ‘the same old crap’ and that it should have supported something more inventive. That night I was interviewed on 3RRR by Richard Moffat, and his opinion was that in the world of world music and left of centre roots music, there were great bits here and there but there had been no outstanding releases."

The AMP has returned for a second year. Until Friday December 1, acts can enter their albums at www.australianmusicprize.com.au or at www. ppca.com.au.

AMP2006 will remain much like last year’s, Murphy says, because it went off so well. The difference is that the amount of judges has been increased to 100. Murphy encourages the judges to listen to as many of the nominated CDs as possible. But some musicians and media were too busy on the road, and could listen to just five or six. Retailers, however, tend to stay in the one city and some listened to up to 23 CDs. This year, Murphy has also expanded the time between when the Shortlist8 is announced and when the winner is named. This will give those record labels that have some extra promotional cash more time to re-market those titles at music stores. Channel [V] and MAX are keen to do mini documentaries on the records in the Shortlist8. Triple J and community radio stations remain staunch supporters. Murphy plans to meet with one of the larger mainstream radio networks to get involved.

A prize like AMP is not eligible for government support, so Murphy is busy getting $3,000 industry sponsorships from companies and individuals. This kind of money allows AMP to promote the Shortlist8 more effectively, especially in the United States and the United Kingdom.

“The idea always was to let the world know about the great music that was coming from here. It worked, both AMP and the Drones got a lot of coverage, in major trade magazines like ‘Billboard’ and on alt-rock websites where fans got to find new music.”

An informal network of like-minded prizes has been set up. Apart from the people who run the Mercury Prize, Murphy is in constant touch with an Irish version which launched at the same time as the AMP, and the Canadian Polaris which began a year later.

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brushstrokes WITH MIA OATLEY 1. Your beginnings?

One of my earliest memories is at the age of 2 painting with my father while my mother was in hospital giving birth to my sister. Everyone in my family is creative.

My mother is an architect and interior designer and my father is a painter, sculptor and landscape designer and my sister is an event designer. I am very lucky that from the first moment I showed interest and ability in art, it was nurtured and completely supported by my family.

2. Your inspirations?

Finding something unique and unusual in something that others may overlook.

People, cultures, being thrown out of my comfort zone, love, adventure and romance are always an inspiration to me.

I have been inspired by David Hockney, Francis Bacon, Marlene Dumas, Basquiart, and my father.

COMEDY ON THE ROX

Showcasing a host of Sydney’s finest new and established comic talents each week, Comedy on the Rox will lift the curtain on laughter every Wednesday night at 8.00pm. This Wednesday catch two great comedians topped off with $4 Pasta deal and discover a recipe for a great night out. The Quest for the Best Open Mic sessions also continue this week. Comedy on the Rox is shaping up as Sydney’s Wednesday night entertainment must. For more info visit www. comedyontherox.com.au. The Roxbury Hotel 182 St Johns Road, Glebe T: 02 9692 0822

PARADISE, ART & DECADENCE

Melt Gallery in Kings Cross is running a special exhibition entitled Paradise, Art & Decadence In Kings Cross. On show will be works of art by Charles Butler-Bowden, whose colour images portray the streets of Kings Cross circa 2002. For the first time, legendary underground photographer Sam Bienstock has reached deep into his exclusive catalogue of black and white images of the Yellow House, artists, galleries and cafes in the 1960s. Also showing is The Glittering Mile, a two-hour documentary of Kings Cross in the sixties. The exhibition runs from August 24 – October 22.

ARE YOU THERE?

Paula Arundell and Socratis Otto star in Are You There?, the inaugural production of an Argentinean play written by Javier Daulte. Directed by former Griffin Theatre Co. Artistic Director Ros Horin, she describes Are You There? as “a play about love and intimacy - or rather the difficulty of achieving it - and the need for magic in our lives, as well as in theatre!“ Are You There? opens at the Ensemble Theatre, Kirribilli on Friday September 22 and runs until October 21.

Tickets $59/39.

CONSTANCE DRINKWATER

This October the Tamarama Rock Surfers Theatre Company (TRS) is proud to present the 2005 Patrick White Award winning play Constance Drinkwater and the Final Days of Somerset by Stephen Carleton.

Constance Drinkwater and the Final Days of Somerset is hilarious, haunting and thought provoking in equal measures. Beautifully constructed characters populate a tightly woven story that will keep audiences on the edge of their seats in wonder until the final shocking revelation in the dying seconds of the play. Carefully hidden secrets, constricting social etiquette and the mysteries of time all play their own part in the destruction of a family and a township. It’s on at SBW Stables Theatre from September 29 – October 28. Tix $29/22.

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3. Your style?

I would describe my own personal style as raw, sensual and bold. I have gravitated towards visually depicting tilings in this way because it feels honest and natural.

4. Your current work?

I created this exhibition whilst living in Paris for a year. I worked on two series at the same time - one of portraits of my lovers and the people from the community I lived in and the other series was of abstract landscapes. Both were inspired by the Paris metro and all of it’s colours and textures.

The two series work together as one and are a visual diary of my experiences living in France.

5. Your scene?

I feel that there is some great art out there at the moment. I share a studio space with six other artists who are all exhibiting and making really interesting work, and I love having that around me to bounce off. I love

the work that Victoria Thomas is making at the moment beautiful organic reef scapes that look like you could dive into the painting, and Yossi messiah’s dripscapes.

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Where: Richard Martin Art, 98 Holdsworth Street, Woollahra

PORTABLE FILM FESTIVAL

FOUR STEPS FORWARD

BONDI SHORT FILM FESTIVAL

WOMEN IN MIND

The Portable Film Festival has launched and it will run until October 22. It’s a free international festival of films especially for portable video devices (iPod videos, Sony PSPs, 3G phones and laptops). The program features filmmakers from around Australia (and the world). You can access the films at www.portablefilmfestival.com

At the Bondi Pavilion from November 24 and 25, the 6th Annual Bondi Short Film Festival will be screening. But the organisers are looking for indie film makers to submit their creations. The films must be less than 18 months old and not exceed 15 minutes. The winner of the festival will win 2 return flights and VIP tickets to the Sundance Film Festival including accommodation!

Further details and entry forms can be found at www.bondishortfilmfestival.com.

SURFING SAFARIS

The world’s largest even surfing film festival, Surfing Safari’s, is touring round NSW during October. It’s heading to a whole bunch of different places, so best to check www.surfingoptions.com to find a location closest to you. It’s filled with some of the best surfing footage you’re likely to see, and on top of that there’s $30 000 worth of prizes to be given away. Also, English band The Cubical will be travelling with the tour as well.

THE BRIDESMAID MUST DIE

In a vengeful twist on the classic ‘bridesmaid from hell’ scenario, Newtown Theatre presents an interactive play that lets the audience bump-off a bridesmaid each night!

The Bridesmaid Must Die is set the night before the society wedding of the year. Brideto-be Yasmine gets together with her mother and her three bridesmaids to celebrate, but by the night’s end, one bridesmaid will be dead. But who will die is not written in the stars... or even in the script! Each night the audience gets to choose which bridesmaid bites the big one! The season runs from October 18 – November 11. Tickets $25/20.

ADELAIDE FRINGE FESTIVAL

The 2007 Adelaide Fringe Festival is being held on March 8 – 31 and the organisers are on the hunt for artists, musicians and performers around the country to take part in the festival. If you’re keen to be a part of this amazing festival, head along to www. adelaidefringe.com and register your interest.

However, you’ve only got until October 27 to register.

The works of Simone Letat, Karen Sullivan, Kath Fries and Michele Monroe are all on show at Four Steps Forward, an exhibition on at Gaffa Gallery from October 19 – 24.

Four Steps Forward captures a sense of each artist’s different direction and the relentless push forward. Each have a sense of humour or playful exploration that marks a crucial point in their individual creative process.

SUBURBAN MAYHEM Directed by Paul Goldman (The Night We Called It A Day, Australian Rules) and starring Emily Barclay & Michael Dorman, Suburban Mayhem tells the story of Katrina Skinner, a 19 year old single mum who lives in a world of petty crime, fast cars, manicures and blowjobs, and will stop at nothing to get what she wants. The film also contains a killer soundtrack featuring Adalita from Magic Dirt, Theredsunband, Little Birdy and Suzi Quatro. We’ve got 5 prize packs to give away to celebrate the release of Suburban Mayhem which include a double pass and a CD soundtrack.

So to win, email freestuff@thebrag. com and tell us how far you’ve gone to get something.

34B FIRST BIRTHDAY

Break out the party hats, bags and poppers ‘cause it’s 34B’s First Birthday! Here’s what we’ve been told: “Inspired by original burlesque and vintage cabaret,as well as all shades rock’n’roll, Belladonnas de Lux are set to celebrate with their very special friends Coco de mer, Amelia Wood - leg artiste, The Monster-fying Showghouls, Gidget The Glamour Cherry and the Irresistible Ivy, Master of the Maidens Drew Fairley and tunes supplied by Goldfoot himself!

These Sisters in Grind know how to tease and please the raucous crowds.So come on down for a night of titillation.” It’s on Friday October 20 at 34b Oxford St, Darlinghurst (next door to Spectrum).

Noni Hazlehurst will appear in one of Alan Ayckbourn’s finest female roles, Susan, whose descent into madness in Woman In Mind takes the audience on a chaotic and farcical ride ending in a frenzied climax. In the style of the film A Beautiful Mind, the audience enters Susan’s psychotic world and experiences everything through her eyes.

With Ayckbourn’s hallmark black humour, fantasy and madness are cleverly woven to find comedy in moments of distraction and poignancy in farce. Tickets are $69/$56 and runs from October 14 – November 25 at the Drama Theatre in the Sydney Opera House.

COMEDY AT THE SACKVILLE

RICHARD VEVERS

No, not the film starring Michael Keaton!

Multiplicity is a new exhibition on at the Museum of Contemporary Art exploring the development of prints and multiples from the 1960s to the current day, tracking the rise of an art form that lies at the core of contemporary art practice. Drawing on collections from MCA and the University of Wollongong, visitors can view works by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Joseph Beuys, Jenny Hotzer and a host more.

Multiplicity runs until March 25 2007 and entry is free.

M Gallery in Kincumber is presenting Octopuses Garden, an exquisite collection of underwater paintings by renowned international artist Richard Vevers, Originally from London, Vevers turned his back on a career in advertising to pursue his artist dream in Australia. In Octopuses Garden, Vevers creates movement and energy using the effects of water on light and perception.

The exhibition opens Saturday October 21 and closes November 18.

AUDITION MASTERCLASS

Auditioning for drama school this year but want an edge? Well, Felix Williamson, a veteran of theatre with teaching experience at NIDA, ACA and ATYP will be hosting an Audition Masterclass from October 30 – November 3. Joining him will be NIDA teacher Chris Stollery, professional dance teacher Caroline Kasper and professional vocal coach Margi De Ferranti. The cost for the class is $395 and there are only 16 places available. To book, contact Felix on 0419 697 154 or email auditionclass@gmail. com.

REVOLUTIONS

The Australian Ballet is back in town in November with a Ballets Russes triple treat, Revolutions, featuring three works by Mikhail Fokine, a revolutionary choreographer who changed the face of ballet in the 20th century. Principal Artist Robert Curran will be performing in all three works – Scheherazade, Le Spectre de la rose and Les Sylphides. Revolutions will be performed at the Sydney Opera House from November 8 – 27.

Thursday October 19 sees Comedy at the Sackville return once again. This week, catch the amazing talents of Chris Franklin (best known for the song ‘Bloke’) as well as the brilliantly funny Jackie Loeb and Peter Green. Best of all, Comedy at the Sackville Hotel is completely free! And with an award-winning bistro on the premises, you’re bound to have a great night. The Sackville Hotel is located at 599 Darling St, Balmain.

MULTIPLICITY

CHRISTOPHER HOLT

In his first Australian exhibition, London photographer Christopher Holt presents his works entitled Chapman Street Photographs, with the works depicting the transient lives and spaces of the demolished street in Sydney’s Inner West. The exhibition consists of 20 C-type hand printed photographs to be opened at Primary Ltd (8 Wilshire St, Surry Hills) on Tuesday October 24. It runs until Sunday November 5.

ART OF MUSIC

Until October 23, the Art of Music exhibition will be on display at the Art Gallery of NSW. Eighteen prominent contemporary visual artists have chosen an iconic song from one of eighteen outstanding Australian singer/songwriters to inspire an artwork.

The works will then be sold in support of NordoffRobbins Music Therapy Australia. Entry is free.

Priscilla, Queen of the Desert: the musical Priscilla’s ride gets pimped By Jade Warne

"In terms of going out and having a good laugh and being entertained, this show achieves that and I don’t think you can ask for much more.”

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ichael Griffiths stands tits out, hands behind his ears in a sparkly pink swimsuit. The neckline cuts a scandalously deep v revealing a spattering of chest hair on the way down to his bellybutton.

His candy-striped velvet leggings hug the curves of his thighs, then explode to super-sized bellbottoms.

But the best is on top: above his dangerously slick pout and fronds of long lashes, Griffiths’ head is swathed in a bouquet of gaudy pink flowers that spread out over his ears like horns. For a man who has supposedly never worn drag before, he cuts a mean silhouette.

Right now Griffiths is at the centre of the sequin-spangled storm that is Priscilla, Queen of the Desert: The Musical. Based on Stephen Elliot’s 1994 movie, Priscilla is one of the biggest local productions ever to grace the Sydney stage. The show debuted to a packed Lyric Theatre last Saturday night and has already received its fair share of media scrutiny.

Bryce Hallett of the Sydney Morning Herald pronounced it a “bold, exuberant and colourful production [that] celebrates the film’s spirit of defiance.” He added that although the performance seemed “thin on plot, it is big on scene-stealing costumes and the pluck of the drag

trio Bernadette, Tick/Mitzi and Adam/ Felicia as they travel into Australia’s vast interior.”

Deborah Jones of The Australian found the stage performance equally spectacular, but felt it was missing the heart of the original. “In Priscilla what’s lost – not completely, but in large measure – is the complex texture of characters and relationships that give the film its heart and soften and accommodate its crude edges. On stage some of the coarseness now sits uncomfortably, seeming less an aspect of a character’s personality than a lack of sophistication on the part of the writers.”

Of course it was always going to be hard for any performance to stack up to the film. When Terence Stamp, Hugo Weaving and Grant Pearce voyaged into the desert armed with outrageous costumes, dirty mouths and warm hearts no one could have predicted the success that was to come. While the film shocked and charmed its way to Australian (and worldwide) acclaim, what’s to be gained by summoning the glitz and glamour of the sprawling outback adventure to the stage of the Lyric Theatre. Or, more importantly, what’s on the line?

“It is a tricky balancing act to get

right,” a bleary-eyed Phillips told the Sydney Morning Herald during a rehearsal break. “It’s exciting building a work from scratch, but it is also scary. The process has been grindingly difficult. You are continually having to test assumptions about how it will go with an audience.”

For costume designer Tim Chappell, the challenge to out-spangle the original was something he was happy to have a crack at. “We already set the bar so high with the amazing success of the original, but I think we’re going to match it,” he told The Brag last week. “We’re hoping that people love it [the show] as much as the first one.”

From Tim’s point of view the real stars of this show are not the actors, the producers, or even the director.

The real stars of Priscilla are the outof-this-world costumes.

“Just to give you an idea of how dramatic these clothes are, in one of our dress rehearsals when the bus died, nobody noticed because the costumes were so amazing. And I know that sounds up my ass, but you can’t go past that.”

Along with Lizzie Gardiner (the infamous wearer of that American Express Card dress), Chappell was

responsible for the stupendous costumes in Priscilla the first time round. Since individually working on projects like Miss Congeniality and Stealth, the two have teamed up again for the Priscilla’s stage debut.

“We wanted to make sure we didn’t lose the feeling of the original,” Chappell explains. “It was really important for us to maintain that draggy look throughout. We didn’t want it looking like a Broadway show.

We had this phrase when we were working on the film – ‘mock the croc’ – it means be inventive with the shoddy materials you have. Even in the big production numbers there’s a little variety, nothing ever matches.

It’s got that slightly trashy feel, and you can never have enough trash,” he finishes with a chuckle.

So with the pressure to pull something mind-blowing out of the bag, how did they approach the design process?

“It’s really easy – just imagine the sickest things you can think of,” Lizzie says with a completely straight face. “You just come up with the most ludicrous ideas you can and you try to make them work. The thing about drag is that anything is acceptable, and that leaves the palette really open.”

Both Tim and Lizzie agree that the big budget was a plus but, nonetheless they faced limitations.

“Part of the burden of being an artist is that you always want to outdo yourself and you come up with ideas that are beyond anything you’ve ever done and then you hit restrictions,” says Lizzie. “I designed a dress made of sex dolls for the show, but it was ultimately rejected. When the actor walked on stage you didn’t know what it [the dress] was, but then it inflated, the sex dolls puffed up and floated off stage again. It really was one of my favourite things of all time, but it was just too expensive and the whole doll aspect was a hassle. You understand why things won’t work, but you still get disappointed.”

But aside from all the behind the scenes stuff, what really makes Priscilla so special?

“Honestly, it’s just a really good escape,” Lizzie concludes simply. “In terms of going out and having a good laugh and being entertained, this show achieves that and I don’t think you can ask for much more.”

What: Priscilla, Queen of the Desert: The Musical Where: Lyric Theatre, Star City Casino

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Portable Film Festival Films on the go By Ellen Crosley

and you’d have to then give it to a distributor if you wanted to get it out there.”

Not only will this mean that anybody can now make a movie by any means they choose, it also means that they can have it seen by whoever wants to watch them. A prime vessel for amateur filmmakers to have their work viewed by a large audience, this film festival is a way of acknowledging and embracing new technology.

“We stated gathering entrants for the film festival back in March. We received over 200 different entries from 14 different countries. We have narrowed that down now to 67 films from 13 different countries.” says Schollar, an astounding result considering that this year is the inaugural event.

“We’re looking to balance the entrants who still go to film school with the ones who are out there really looking to get a step into the industry. There are a lot of films that are of high technical quality that are working with really advanced themes and there are some out there of a lesser technical quality which are still working with really interesting ideas. We really aim to get a balance.”

The Portable Film Festival will be a chance for all kinds of filmmakers to showcase their talents and then break into the industry. And it’s a perfect chance: there was no fee to enter a film and there were no technical standards which needed to be followed. A select few from the festival will even been screened on the ABC’s JTV programs throughout October and November. Which is of extreme value In reaction to this, the Portable Film Festival and help to the up-and-coming film makers, has been born. Unlike the traditional film because in order for any filmmaker to receive festivals, the films of this festival are only funding from the Australian Film Council, they available online, and the audience is able to need to have at least one TV credit to their rate the films and leave comments, or even name. download the films, making it a truly interactive “We’re already starting to get our film makers experience. It’s all about being able to watch out there,” beams Schollar, akin to a proud movies on devices such as 3G phones, iPods, father. “It’s our intention that this festival will laptops or PSPs. But according to director be a platform for them to get started and be Apostola Schollar, it’s about much more. raised into the industry.” ”In a more broader sense it’s about democratising the film making and the film viewing process,” explains Schollar about What: The Portable Film Festival the principles behind the conception of the Where: www.portablefilmfestival.com Portable Film Festival. “In the past if you wanted to make a film, you’d have to get out and shoot it on really expensive equipment

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ife in 2006 is portable – boarding a morning train and hearing the hum of iPods is enough to prove this. Instead of people just talking on phones, they’re using them to listen to MP3s, or check the latest news updates. Even the humble Gameboyesque equipment has evolved beyond playing mere video games.

The Bridesmaid Must Die

Step right up… By Dom Alessio

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t’s not every day that the playwright you want to interview is in Asia touring with his ABBA Tribute Band. But that may just give you a good indication about the eccentricities of Wayne Tunks, and also go some way in explaining the unusual nature of his latest play The Bridesmaid Must Die. ”It’s the night before the society wedding of the year,” explains Wayne about the premise of the play. “The bride-to-be is celebrating with her mum and three bridesmaids, but by the end of the evening one bridesmaid will be dead! At the interval the audience will vote to decide which one bites the big one - will it be the ‘nice’ girl who’s being stalked by her psychotic ex-boyfriend, played by me?

Perhaps the trampy matron-of-honour whose been trying to get into the groom’s pants.

Or maybe the suicidal lesbian beat poet? All the other characters have a motive... But it’s less a ‘who dunnit?’ than a ‘who’s gonna getit’!”

The Bridesmaid Must Die premiered at the Riverside Theatre in Parramatta in 2004, but in its original incarnation the audience didn’t get to vote on the victim of their choosing. Wayne points to experience as the inspiration behind the play. “I’ve been to a lot of weddings in my time. I always find it amusing to watch the bridesmaids and imagine what they’re thinking. They always seem to be in awe of the bride... but there’s jealousy there too!”

Wayne is best known for his romantic comedy work, in plays such as We’ll Always Have Wagga, The Subtle Art of Flirting and Birthdays, Christmases and other Family Disasters. He’s been described as Sydney’s most prolific writer of romantic comedies, and it’s a subject close to his heart. “Exploring love, attraction and sexual politics is everyone’s obsession, not just mine. And I’m

a romantic. Happy endings make everybody feel good... even if – as in this play - they involve rat poison or a noose!”

The majority of the cast have previously worked with Wayne, with matron-of-honour Renee Lim starring in Wagga and suicidal lesbian poet Emma Wood playing a part in Birthdays. “I do like to work to work with my favourite crew and actors whenever possible,” says Wayne. And as the writer and director, he also got to cast himself in the performance. “I can’t resist! It’s like the fantasy of writing different characters... any actor loves the challenge of playing a new character too. And how do I get myself cast in plumb roles? I sleep with the director!

(Laughs)” Wayne says the popularity of his shows is now influencing the audition process. “When it comes to auditions, I’m starting to get really big numbers applying – I suppose word has spread that we have a ball... and get full houses. Any actor loves that.”

The interactivity of the play is something Wayne is understandably excited about, and currently playing in an ABBA Tribute Band allows him to experience a direct audience response. “I’ve sung in bands, done stand up comedy... the lot! There’s nothing better than really feeling the audience is right there with you... and putting yourself out there on the edge by taking a few risks. Audiences really enjoy being able to shape the story...

And let’s face it, who of us hasn’t wanted to bump off a bridesmaid at some time?”

What: The Bridesmaid Must Die Where: Newtown Theatre When: October 18 - November 11

Checklist for an Armed Robber Make believe’s theatrical terrorists By Cec Busby

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irector Jessica Symes is what is affectionately referred to in the biz as a ‘theatre brat’. One of those kids that you always come across at the theatre openings; running around like they own the place; treating the foyer as a personal playground.

Her mum worked in “the production department” and her dad “was a photographer”. As the story goes, when Symes’ mother gave birth to a bouncing baby - the crew at Belvoir hung up “a big sign across the bar that read ‘It’s a Girl’.”

Symes’ earliest memories involve days “playing dress ups in the costume store or climbing the stairs to watch rehearsals”.

She recalls: “There were a few of us ‘theatre kids’ so during the day the foyer would be transformed with toys, games and dolls and according to us, we ruled the building. So understandably the Belvoir building has a very special place in my heart and will always hold some very fond childhood memories.”

In fact her first theatrical memory was at the age of four “sitting and watching a rehearsal of A Midsummer Nights Dream) at the Nimrod (Now Belvoir).”

Symes continues: “In my memory’s interpretation of the auditorium, it seems as big as the Entertainment Centre and me sitting in one of the back rows, seems miles away from the actors that I am watching rehearse on stage. I could sit and watch for hours, and I did.”

Today Symes is back on those (recently renovated) bleachers once more – and this time she is the one wearing the Director’s hat. The play in question is Checklist for an Armed Robber, Vanessa Bates’ work on the human realities of terrorist acts. Based on the true stories of the Russian Theatre siege and an armed hold up that took place in Melbourne at the same time, the events unfold on stage to reveal the very 24 :: BRAG :: 179 :: 02:09:06

human face of terrorism. The work started life as a radio play, and this production marks its Sydney theatre debut.

For Symes, directing the play has been challenging, but “storytelling is always a challenge” she shrugs. She credits her casts’ skill as the reason for the piece’s success. With simultaneous storylines and accents to juggle from two continents, it’s not an easy work to get right. “I have had the privilege of working with four of the most highly skilled actors who have razor sharp instincts and impeccable technique. What they do is nothing of genius to switch characters and continents in the blink of an eye with ease and grace and in addition it helps to have such and ineradicably crafted script.”

Symes boils down the themes of Armed Robber which has been described as an inherently political piece with a single sentence: “A single act of retaliation cannot solve terrorism”.

Given the nature of the play, does she think politics has a place in contemporary theatre? “Australian theatre is not afraid to ask the hard questions, “ says Symes “and put a mirror up to what sometimes is an ugly reflection. Theatre can’t be duplicated, it is delivered in the present which makes the dialogue between the play and the audience electric, which is exactly why we go, for the possibility of hearing, seeing or experiencing something that will never be heard, seen or experienced in exactly the same way ever again.”

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What you should go and see

SUBURBAN MAYHEM The new film from director Paul Goldman (Australian Rules, The Night We Called It A Day) is an incendiary, unblinking portrait of a she-devil set on loving the world through destruction. A hilarious and compelling script from screenwriter Alice Bell has been sculpted into a subversive fireball: it burns and bewilders from start to finish.

It is the story of Katrina Skinner, undoubtedly the defining new anti-heroine in Australian cinema. Katrina, played by actress Emily Barclay, is a 19 year-old single mum ripping up the world and recreating her own anyway she sees fit. She lives her life seducing men, stealing handbags and getting her hair done without the least bit of interest in a job or anything less than sex, fast cars and bourbon.

The mini-skirted manipulator’s lifestyle is suddenly threatened however when her father John attempts to cut her off financially and take her baby girl away from the chaos she’s been born into. Katrina then plots to kill him, unleashing a plan that that will have haphazard and tragic results for all concerned.

An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

Murderers may be monsters, but is revenge really as sweet and appropriate as they say it is? The air remains stagnant. The cold of the cinema fills the room with goose bumps. And as I leave, I am a little more disturbed about the world at large. The characters are chillingly real and the circumstances are even more disturbingly possible. Hailed as the modern day Taxi Driver, you sure as hell don’t want to get on the razor sharp side of justice.

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Told through flashbacks and a series of interviews for a documentary film on Katrina, what follows is a high-speed ruination of the Skinner family, their friends and partners. Fully believing in the Machiavellian nature of her methods, Katrina also attempts to free her imprisoned brother Danny with the scheme, yet as the film reveals, this is anything but straightforward.

The film is a ferocious comedy-drama, where each of the assorted characters is driven to do what they think is right, by any means possible.

It is rife with social comment, exposing the savagery that lurks in us all and mocks any notion of the docility of the suburbs or its inhabitants. The gender politics of the film are also noteworthy, as the highly sexualised and empowered Katrina constantly conflicts with any number of males, all characterised by their weakness and failings to contain or content her.

Shot in and around Newcastle, the film has a convulsive visual style, edgy and energetic, which is coupled perfectly with a scalding soundtrack featuring the likes of Magic Dirt’s Adalita and a host of other Australian indie rockers. Every element of the film is uncompromising, be it in costume, dialogue or aesthetics and its intense energy is relentless.

Goldman has taken a brilliant script and created a landmark Aussie film. As her name suggests, Katrina Skinner is set to carve her name into every viewer. It’s bloody, but will be the type of wound you’ll want to talk about…

Andrew Seccombe

DEAD MAN’S SHOES There are few movies these days that can get away with bloody murder (in colour) and leave a lasting impact other than that of gruesome death. But then there are few movies that work beyond the confines of blood and gore.

Prejudice. Justice. Revenge. Dead Man’s Shoes leaves nothing unjustified.

A mysterious figure, Richard and his mentally disabled brother hide out in an abandoned shack, not too far from the city. They are planning something. Richard has just returned from the army and there is a glimmer of hatred stuck in his eye. Cool, calm and collected he searches the premises and finds a good, sturdy chopping axe whilst he reminisces times spent with his brother.

But at night, the real terrors of the mind emerge. A gas mask marks his face, a spray can is his trusted weapon and with army knowledge a-plenty, Richard sneaks into three suburban houses and paints them a rainbow.

Threats are splayed upon walls, clowns are painted upon faces and bulls-eye targets are created on the backs of jackets. Richard has made the first call for revenge. The targeted meet up. They are old friends still living out their sordid lives with drug dealings, drunken nights and foul language. “Anthony’s brother is back.” The crowd goes quiet and the targeted shiver with fright. And with good reason. Soon after, one of their posse is found bludgeoned to death in the bathroom. One Down. Like the cowards that they are, they arm themselves with a gun. But even that cannot save them.

What was it that they did that made them deserve all this?

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DUMPLINGS (GAAU JI) Gaau ji / Dumplings is the stylish new film from Fruit Chan, shot by Aussie expat cinematographer Christopher Doyle – who helped Wong Kar Wai’s films, not to mention recent mainstreamers Lady in the Lake and The White Countess, look so luscious.

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COLOUR ME KUBRICK

Zach Braff is a comedic genius.

With his posse of dysfunctional medical staff in tow, Dr. John Dorian (Braff) continues to lead the charge of hilarity in this, the 4th season of the cult TV hit Scrubs. It’s one of a number of shows that, despite missing out on commercial television success in Australia, has been a huge hit on DVD. Unlike a lot of sitcoms that are funny for the first one or two seasons and then lose it completely (see: Friends), Season 4 of Scrubs continues to deliver the belly-laughs time and time again.

The alwaysbrilliant John Malkovich is at his best in Colour Me Kubrick, a comedy based on the true story of a conman who tried to pass himself off as filmmaker Stanley Kubrick (The Shining, Eyes Wide Shut). And succeeded – kinda.

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Each cast member is superb, and I could list every one of them but it would be pointless because they’re all good.

One of the great things about Scrubs is that aside from it being wickedly funny, it also has a strong human element to it, to the point that many parts also play out like a drama. So Scrubs characters don’t become mindless vessels for regurgitating funny lines, you actually feel as though you know the characters, which makes their situations the more hilarious. The only problem from the cast of Scrubs is that they’re so good at what they do is that it’s hard to picture them as anyone but their Scrubs characters. But that aside, this is one of the funniest shows on TV. Dom Alessio

Like its subjects and characters, Dumplings is beautiful to look at, but ugly inside. Both the dumplings and their eaters might look tempting, but they harbour dark secrets.

Qing’s philandering husband (Tony Leung) seems to get the best of the deal, with attractive women apparently going to all lengths to seduce him.

What is more offensive in this film is the probably gratuitous scene of a 15-year-old girl hemorrhaging after an improvised abortion of her own father’s child. This is truly horrific, and for me it didn’t sit well beside the fairy-tale quality of the morality tale as a whole.

This leads one to wonder whether, all up, Dumplings might have done better in its original thirty-minute form – as part of the compilation film Three…Extremes (2004). At 90 minutes, the film feels a little overdrawn.

That aside, this is a great tale for those who like them dark and twisted. Doyle’s cinematography is terribly beguiling, and worth the price of the ticket and the turned tummy!

Dee Jefferson

One of the films producers notes that the film has three messages: “One, anyone can be Stanley Kubrick. Two, all crimes perpetrated in the name of celebrity will be rewarded by celebrity itself. Three, if you ever meet a celebrity, watch your wallet.”

Colour Me Kubrick isn’t laugh-out-loud funny, and it does omit some terribly big missed opportunities, but it’s an enjoyable and rather interesting chronicle of one of today’s most unique crimes.

Clint Morris

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The vanity and excess of modern celebrities has become a trope; but Dumplings also has a submersed commentary on China’s one-child policy, and the practice of abortion.

Although Auntie Mei is quirky enough for comic value, and there are delicious edges of black humour, the tone of this film is prevailingly dark. Qing’s temptation sets off a chain reaction of ugly deeds, betrayals and despair.

Despite looking nothing like Kubrick – which is rather obvious, considering Malkovich himself doesn’t share any similarities to the late director - Alan Conway was able to get meetings with the big-timers, swindle them out of money, and basically pitch projects that nearly got made. All because, nobody bothered to do a Google and see what Stanley Kubrick actually looked like (for the record, the late director was a big burly man with a balding noggin’ and a bushy beard).

EDMOND

Hot young Americanised (read: political exile) Chinese starlet Bai Ling plays “Auntie” Mei, the maker of the dumplings, the purveyor of the proverbial red apple. She tempts ageing TV starlet Qing (Miriam Leung) with the promise of eternal youth that her pricey dumplings offer.

Moreover, there is an irony in Bai Ling playing an ex-revolutionary abortionist from Mainland China, turned mystical chef in Hong Kong. After her role in the pro-democracy demonstrations at Tiananmen Square in 1989, and subsequent controversial role in 1997’s Red Corner, Ling is unable to return to her homeland.

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Brett Ratner’s film has none of the fluency (even the special effects look rubbishy – budget blown on coke, perhaps?) or emotion (when a major character ‘leaves us’ we’re supposed to give a shit, right?!) of the first two films. It is, frankly, one of the most disappointing blockbusters of the past few years and a real kick in the face for anyone who’s stayed with the oncevictorious series up to here.

Typically of a Ratner production, the DVD is a lot more entertaining the film itself. I don’t get it…. The dude knows how to put together a movie, but seems incapable of putting together a decent movie - well, an X-Men movie anyway.

The best extra on the disc is a production diary, which encompasses every aspect of the film’s production.

This is really interesting stuff. We see how everything was put together, we meet the cast, we experience some hiccups, and we even get to see Ratner attempt to squeeze into a Wolverine costume (amusing in a ‘gee, that guy is embarrassing’ kinda way).

Other extras include a bunch of deleted scenes, a couple of commentaries, a couple of alternate endings, a number of featurettes and some smaller pieces that chronicle lesser (or more technical) aspects of the film.

Again, a good disc, a poor film.

Clint Morris

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Seasoned horror filmmaker Stuart Gordon - director of the cult classic Re-Animator - unleashes his classiest, and possibly – needless to say, considering the cast – most mainstream pic, Edmond. But in this case, would ‘an offkilter Gordon effort’ have been better?

William H.Macy plays Edmond, a brutally unhappy businessman who, after a visit with a fortune-teller, learns that he’s “not where he’s supposed to be”. Intrigued by the information, Edmond starts to re-asses his current situation – starting by kicking his wife out on the street, and going on a search for sexual gratification on the streets. These changes aren’t doing him any good though – especially when his impulsive actions result in murder.

With excellent supporting performances from Julia Stiles (Save the Last Dance) and Joe Mantegna (Homicide), Edmond is an interesting-enough and rather compelling thriller (might even go so far as to say it’s a horror), but it doesn’t move fast enough or encompass anything gripping enough to sustain the interest of your commonplace movie fan.

Clint Morris

Weird Al Yankovic NERD!!! By Jake Stone

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ost people know Weird Al Yankovic as the hugely recognisable, geeky parody songwriter. What people don’t realise is that he’s also a freaky genius. And stinking rich. “…Or just a freak. When I write songs like ‘White & Nerdy’, I write from experience.”

guy. Instead we focus on the upbeat, childlike energy of his work.

Although his songs take total comic commitment to extremes, like Bill Cosby, Yankovic won’t work blue. “I personally don’t enjoy being mean-spirited in my humour. I think it’s more of a challenge to be funny and satirical without kicking somebody.” You can’t please everyone though, and somehow got on the wrong side of Sir Paul McCartney. Al has a cautiously rebellious streak, it seems.

Laughing on the phone from the hills overlooking Los Angeles, the man whose had hits rewording popular songs for over two decades is just as gee-whiz as you’d expect.

He’s eager, courteous, and yes, extraordinarily nerdy. Since his career blossomed in the ”I certainly don’t want to diss Sir Paul - at one mid-eighties the singer/accordion player has released twelve albums, six of which have been point at a party he asked when I was going to do one of his songs,” he says. Apparently achieved US platinum status in sales.

Yankovic took McCartney at his word, and transformed ‘Live & Let Die’ into ‘Chicken Pot Remember his Michael Jackson rip off ‘Eat It’?

That was huge! He’s rich, beeyatch, but it might Pie’ to the ire of the senior Beatle and devout vegetarian. “He obviously had a tremendous not have been that way, and Yankovic agrees that gambling his future on comic parody songs sense of humour, but he just ‘didn’t want to condone the eating of animal flesh’” was a hell of a gutsy move. “People always The wrath of Sir Paul doesn’t stop him from had high hopes for me, because I was the playing the song live, though. “I’m a vegetarian valedictorian at my high school, graduated as well”, he explains, “…but it’s a joke.” at sixteen. I was a very bright kid.” Despite what Yankovic does for a living, most would admit that it takes a brilliant talent to win three Grammy awards. Al considers his choice of vocation warily. “I’m doing fine now, before the record deal clicked… it was scary for a little while there,” he admits.

Who: Weird Al Yankovic What: Straight Outta Lynwood, out now on Sony BMG

Al’s music career began with mastering the complicated piano accordion by age ten, but it wasn’t exactly a hit with classmates. “I felt a bit alienated. You develop a select breed of friends if you are trying to impress with accordion skills.”

Yankovic penned versions of popular songs for the Dr Demento radio program and in live sets, where his shrill tone, trademark Hawaiian shirts and goggle-eyed enthusiasm naturally added to his comic persona. He was the archetypal American geek, and became a popular cult figure, but life as a square peg continued for Yankovic into tertiary study (architecture) and a career path he couldn’t bring himself to follow. ”It was a difficult period of my life.” he admits.

After college, he shifted listlessly through a half-life of crap jobs before a chance run in with The Knack gave him his big break. “I was doing menial labour like working in the mailroom, trying to figure out if I could get some kind of record deal,” he says. “At the time, 1979, ‘My Sharona’ made The Knack the biggest band in the world, and they were coming to my college.

A parody of mine called ‘My Bologna’ was getting a lot of attention.”

Yankovic weaselled his way backstage after the show to meet the band, with surprising results. ”The Knack had heard my song on the radio, and thought it was very funny. They already knew who I was!” he laughs. “To make it even more crazy, one of the executives for Capitol Records was backstage, and The Knack turned to him and said ‘You should put this guy out on your label’!” Even though he’s probably told this story a million times, his laughter is pretty infectious, “A couple of months later I had a single on Capitol Records!” ’Weird’ Al Yankovic has since gone on to enjoy enormous success and considerable celebrity. Kurt Cobain was evidently a fan (or was possibly being ironic) when he personally granted him the right to record a parody of ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’. “Nirvana were playing on the show Saturday Night Live, and I was close friends with one of the cast members, Victoria Jackson,” he explains. “I told Victoria, if you are ever alone in a room with Kurt Cobain, please put him on the phone. She put him on, and I talked to Kurt directly. He said ‘I’d be honoured. Is it going to be about food?’ I said, no, it’s going to be about how nobody can understand your lyrics, and he said ‘oh, that’s funny. Go ahead.’” Having a phone conversation with Kurt Cobain is just one more crazy story to add to a long line of crazy fucking craziness. Guesting on The Simpsons is another, a moment Yankovic describes as “the high point of my career”. ”I think that’s my claim to immortality, because that show is going to be in syndication for the next 500 years…That was a really validating moment for me, I felt like part of the club.” Al admits that, although it’s a bizarre job, parody songwriting has its benefits. “The nice thing about what I do is that I can shamelessly follow trends, and people don’t think less of me for it because that’s part of my job description.”

His warm, zany take on popular songs seem to be an extension of the man himself, likable and engaging, with little obvious ego. But Al’s life has been marked by as much by freak tragedy as good fortune - his elderly parents died a little over two years ago after leaving the gas on in their home. It’s a subject Al cannot address with becoming openly upset, and I refuse to broach it because…well, he seems like such a good BRAG :: 181 :: 16:10:06 :: 27

The Album Leaf

Pharaohs They come from Radelaide By Vivian Huynh

Scoring and Soaring By Andrew Seccombe

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immy LaValle is the creator of some of the most emotive and intimate instrumental music around. He’s toured with Icelandic mood-gods Sigur Rós, his compositions appear on world famous television shows and he’s just about to embark on a tour in support of his fourth fulllength album Into the Blue Again. But despite some very high profile success, Jimmy will tell you that often enough it’s the littlest things that make it all worthwhile.

“One time we played in New York and at one particular show someone gave me a copy of a CD of their band playing a couple of Album Leaf songs. It was pretty awesome. It was really bad – but it was really awesome.”

Such has been the appeal of his string-laced, electro-melodic orchestrations which have found fans all over the globe. His ambientstyle music is peaceful and considered and

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tip: if you’re looking for info on Adelaide’s Pharaohs, do not go to pharaohs.com, for there you will find not the band site, nor even some sort of Egyptian ancient history tie in. Instead you will encounter ‘The Hottest casino on the Net!’ Indeed.

Listen to Pharaohs’ follow-up EP Medicines and you’ll get a similar sense of disorientation.

Unlike their debut release The Forest For the Trees, which was a hardened crash of upfront manic noise, Medicines is a considerably more measured release.

That the EP was actually intended to be an album, but was culled down, is telling. “There were about 4 actual songs that we scrapped.

We thought it’d all fit on an album and look good, but there really was a difference between the old stuff and the new stuff, so we figured we’d just cut the old stuff out and move on as a whole.”

This ‘new stuff’ is out on relatively new label Unikron, really the imprint Damn Arms uses (“it feels like we’ve got a banner that we can put our releases under”) – the loving arms of a musical brother, if you will. “I used to play in hardcore bands and Tim [bass player, Damn Arms] used to play in hardcore bands, like 6 years ago or something. And when Yama was in Snap!Crakk!, I’d DJ at shows they’d put on.”

“It’s basically completely different,” says bassist Joel, reclining in his Adelaide home on a Sunday arvo as a chirping racket suddenly engulfs the conversation. “Craziest birds in the Joel lists the other bands of the ‘crew’: “We’ve backyard…” definitely found a musical affinity with Children Collide. And My Sister The Cop are like our Joel sets up the differences. “The production hometown boys. We’re all good friends.” side of the last EP was literally done in like a day, whereas with this, Dan [C, singer] and this other friend of ours Nick bought ProTools, As for that whole website thing. Go to tigerbites.com.au - “it’s an old song title and set up this house in the hills, and produced I just registered it.” He laughs, “The guy who it themselves. It ended up being an 8 week owns Unikron was bitching about it, but what period.” can you do? There’s no way we’re gonna have ‘pharaohsmusic’. But it doesn’t even This extra time to play around gave the matter. These days it’s all about Myspace.” band breathing room to manoeuvre into new sonic spaces they previously hadn’t really Who: Pharaohs considered. “Everyone was a lot closer to Where: Rebel Rebel the songs, and there’s a lot more interesting sounds involved.”

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listeners have varied experiences that they want The Album Leaf to accompany. “People tell me that they were listening to Album Leaf when they were giving birth,” recalls Jimmy.

“Stuff like that is really cool to hear.”

Despite the mellow nature of the music, Jimmy explains that the influences for his tonal treats are a lot more varied than might be expected. “I listen to all kinds of things,” he says. “I listen to a lot of funk and soul records and I think that comes out in my drumming sometimes. I also listen to a lot of hip hop records which comes out in my drumming and my beats.”

Acclaim and popularity are only ever half of the picture though, as Jimmy admits to being affected by unfavourable reviews now and again, especially in regards to his vocals which are a relatively new ‘instrument’ that he’s experimenting with. “I’ve been doing music forever, I haven’t been writing lyrics forever,” he says. “And especially being more well-known now, for me to put myself out there to sing when I don’t feel I’ve got the greatest voice and to just go for it is a little more nerve-wracking and brutal to me.”

Ultimately though, performance is of course the greatest test for his musicianship and The Album Leaf’s live show consists of Jimmy and three other musicians covering keyboards, guitars, drums and violin. There is also a fifth performer who’s responsible for the graphics that are projected during the concerts, which Jimmy sees as essential for the music’s holistic sensory experience. “It’s his vision of the songs really,” he explains regarding the style and aesthetic of the accompanying visuals artist. “There are some really abstract images, some really straightforward images. He’s got some toys back there to play with. It stays pretty fresh.”

And although he’s desperate to tour Australia one day, Jimmy still finds the live circuit a bittersweet experience, especially after constant touring with his breakthrough album, 2004’s In A Safe Place. He has a love/hate relationship with touring life and hopes that one day he may be able to live comfortably by other means more suited to his incandescent instrumental talents. “I would like to do film scores and pay my bills that way. I wouldn’t mind being in a Michel Gondry movie, that’d be pretty good for me, (laughs).”

Who: The Album Leaf What: Into the Blue Again, out now through Stomp

Brian Campeau The mirror has two faces By Kirsty Brown

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t the start of our ‘interview’ Brian Campeau tells me he loves paraphrasing, so I need not worry about my lack of recording equipment.

It is an odd comment to make, but instantly puts me at ease – however, now I am free to make up whatever I want about the enigmatic musician…

Having relocated to Australia three years ago (“I met a girl!”), Campeau has been busy touring, he even took his show on the road to Melbourne without any gigs booked and ended up playing 12 shows. He sees a lot of similarities in the Canadian music scene, particularly like Toronto vs Vancouver and Sydney vs Melbourne, but is chuffed at his new found homeland. Lets hope he stays.

Two Faces has been described as folktronica as it explores music with both an acoustic guitar and digitally. On his Vitamin Records site, one person has described the music “…makes me question the possibility of a human eating his or her own head, then writing a thesis on whether you can or can’t, giving reasons why and/or instructions”.

There is every chance you may not have heard of him, he has been quietly building a steady following due to his incredible live shows and his concept album Two Faces. If there is any justice in the world however, Brian Campeau’s fanbase should become a groundswell at any time. Imaginative, witty and tongue in cheek, Campeau adds his own flavour to everything that he does (right down to his advertising campaigns, which have at times subverted the notion that an ad should ‘sell’ something).

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The debut album Two Faces also subverts the typical idea of what an album should be like.

A two disc venture, one disc is the original version of the song, the second has the same songs repeated but reworked, remastered and rethunk. “When I play live I play a third version of the songs and for the album launch, I assembled a bunch of musician friends and so I wrote a fourth version of the songs so that they fitted what needed to be done live.”

A tad confusing for the fans perhaps? “I once saw Jose Gonzales play over in Canada and I could have set up a doll, put a guitar in its hands and pressed play on his album. It was exactly the same. Which is all well and good, but I felt there was no spontaneity and no real reason why you need to see him live…” We chat about how Radiohead often dismantle the root of the songs and come up with beautiful acoustic takes on their digital masterpieces, a concept that Campeau has seen confuse fans.

“I hope they don’t come to my show, see the acoustic side and then get pissed off when they hear the album and it is electronica!”

Who: Brian Campeau What: Two Faces, out now on Vitamin Records Where: The Vanguard When: Tuesday October 24

Angels And Airwaves For real By Nick Clarke

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s Blink 182’s band members each entered their thirties, one couldn’t help but question their motivations for singing about the day to day conundrums of angst ridden fifteen year old boys. For the most part, Tom Delonge’s lyrics (though often witty) were not renowned for their biting social commentary, so much as their toilet humour. But alas, Blink have disbanded, and Delonge has created Angels and Airwaves (or ‘AVA’), the band he describes to me as, “what I seriously believe has got to be the best band I’ve heard.”

No, Delonge is not short on confidence; he’s cocky as all hell. In fact, in substantiating his claim that AVA would one day be the biggest band in the world, he delivered this impassioned proclamation: “No matter what people say, no matter what the critics say, We Don’t Need To Whisper is a fucking kick ass record, and you turn that shit up, tell me who’s ever done something like that, where you’re blending that many textures? It’s so futuristic! I mean you can hear elements of U2, you can hear elements of The Cure and this and that, but all combined into one fucking epic rock record? Never!” Tall poppy syndrome (unreasonable) dictates that guys like Delonge and Kanye West cop a lot of negative press, particularly in Australia, for their unabashed, balls out confidence. But really, what’s the harm in their exercising some harmless self promotion? Besides, if one puts all possible preconceptions and expectations aside, AVA’s debut album, We Don’t Need To Whisper (which, incidentally, is accompanied by a soon to be released film), is actually a pretty bloody good listen.

Delonge refers to the creation of AVA as an epiphany of sorts, a cathartic, rising from the ashes type of achievement that has seen him come out the other end far better off, both musically and personally. “I’m really proud of myself for pulling off something that was extremely scary…looking back in hindsight I can’t believe what I did. It was so full of risk…and I was just like ‘fuck it’, this is what I need to do for my life to make it happen, and it worked incredibly.” One of the risks referred to here, lies in the fact that musically, this project ventured into epic, anthemic rock territory, a genre uncharted by Delonge until now. When prompted to divulge a press statement of his regarding the AVA sound as a hybrid of his own favourite bands, Delonge paints a fairly accurate portrait of his new band’s ambitious fusion of genres; “I basically took the anthemic quality of U2, the theatrical and somewhat tribal element of Peter Gabriel, the sophistication of The Police, and from Pink Floyd - the idea of what they were… the concept.”

As alluded to in the introduction to this article, as popular and terrific a band as Blink 182 were, surely there came a point, what with the arrival of their own children and the like, where the takingthe-piss aspect of it all started to grate on the group’s members? “No, not at all,” retorts Tom. “It’s very much who I am, it’s just one side of me, it’s like saying somebody is only a romantic, they never laugh, they never cry. Human beings have many sides to them and Blink was very much showing one side.” Conversely, Tom believes AVA truly enables him both to reveal and put to work all the facets of his chameleonesque character. “Angels really shows who I am – I’m a dumb joke, I get really serious, I talk about what’s happening in the world, I talk about what the world could be like.” If Tom has his way, we will soon live in a world where all his clothing, music, and production companies can cross-market like never before. Remaining tight lipped on the particulars, in the next six months Delonge plans to “launch something that’ll probably be a pretty strong ingredient to a revolution of music on the internet…between what Angels has done, and what I’m going to do with my companies, it will change the way bands are marketed and delivered.” It sounds like a big deal, but Delonge is prone to hyperbole!

The fantastic thing about Delonge is, he genuinely couldn’t give a shit whether anybody else believes his audacious declarations or not. Obsequious Californianisms like, “Australia, God, it’s my favourite place to go” aside, Delonge is, refreshingly, less calculating than one might suspect his business savviness would dictate. The ever-present, wonderfully uninhibited class clown aspect to his personality, actually comes off as a sort of charming innocence; a nonchalant, hands in the air attitude that’s characterised by rapid fire, stream of consciousness type responses.

With an abundance of “ya knows” and “kind ofs” peppering his speech, he also sounds like the popular, street smart, but secretly intelligent kid in the philosophy class at school. He’s the type who astonishes his classmates when, after having spent all semester slouching in the back row, fiddling with his lip piercing and listening to his Discman, he delivers an impromptu, free thinking interpretation of an obscure Machiavellian theory. He’s clued in, and very, very quick on his feet.

When asked if he and former band mates Mark and Travis are currently on good terms, Delonge chuckles nervously and remarks, “Good question! We haven’t spoken since the break-up, but I think it’s just one of those things, it’s like when a guy and a girl break up, you just kind of need your space.” Delonge cites his inability to spend time with his family due to Blink commitments as having contributed to his sudden departure from the band in early 2005. “In that situation we were working two years straight – I missed the first two years of my daughter’s life and I didn’t want to keep going and going. I couldn’t do it and it created all this friction, [whereas] with [We Don’t Need To Whisper], I was able to record it all at home and I scheduled it all around my family.”

As a family man, business man and musician, Tom DeLonge is clearly of the opinion that if something’s worth doing it’s worth doing properly. Punters who attend the upcoming Australian shows can expect Delonge and co. to exercise this commitment to perfectionism.

And hey, if nothing else, it’s best you catch them now, before they become, as Tom predicts, “the biggest band in the world.”

Who: Angels and Airwaves What: We Don't Need To Whisper out now through Universal When: October 20 Where: The Big Top @ Luna Park

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Toni Collette & the Finish She can sing…seriously! by Ian Dunn

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ou have been involved in music for a long time, when did you start singing?

I don’t remember a time when music was ever absent in my life. All my fondest memories have soundtracks. I have always sung but didn’t realise I was any good till my early teens when people reacted to the sound I made with excitement.

The album Beautiful Awkward Pictures is a collection of your music from the past ten years, is the album a reflection of your personal journey over that time?

Well, it’s a wee bit longer than 10 years actually. I wrote the oldest song on the record, ‘Tent Waltz’, when I was 22. So, that’s almost 12 years ago….dear lord! The songs are certainly a reflection of how I was thinking or feeling or seeing life. However, the first two singles from the album are the two most recently written, ‘Beautiful Awkward Pictures’, and ‘Look Up’. Instrumentally, the songs are all brand new. I had done a demo of four tracks a few years ago but those songs have all changed quite a bit with the record.

The songs are very honest and open, how are you finding the experience of being yourself as an artist as opposed to playing a character?

I try to allow an openness & honesty when I act, also. Ultimately, it all comes from the same place & that place really doesn’t have a name. I guess I try to keep my ideas at an unconscious level so they can remain alive & not a presentation of a preconceived idea, if that makes any sense. I think the only difference is that I create the genesis of the story in each song, as opposed to interpreting somebody else’s idea when I play a character.

What singers and songwriters really inspired you to begin singing and writing?

I started singing for audiences in the 80’s. I was a teenager so you can only imagine what was inspirational to me at the time…apart from the music of the day; I listened to quite a bit of 60’s music & Motown. As far as writing goes, I can admire a song but to write takes inspiration which, for me, more often comes from life rather than someone else’s work.

Is it fair to say your song writing is a blend of imagery, emotion, and experience?

A lot of people have said their mind starts to wander & create images for them when they are listening to the music. That’s just amazing to me.

That’s the most exciting part about sharing these songs…everyone brings their own reaction to it.

Maybe that’s why music can be so enveloping. It can make us feel a sense of unity or of not being alone. It can be comforting to feel a connection with it. I just try to go for a sense of purity which, inevitably, carries some kind of emotion with it.

And I guess it represents my experience. Not to say it’s about things that have happened to me.

But as I’ve grown my perspective has changed & that is definitely reflected in the songs.

Can you describe any differences between your preparation for a vocal take and a scene?

It’s similar in that I have an idea of what I want it to be like. But I also allow the moment to take me wherever it wants. Its best when I am absorbed & not thinking, just doing.

You have described ‘Beautiful Awkward Pictures’ as “….. like that quiet person. The more you get to know it, the more you like it”. Is it fair to describe the album as a revival of the long play record as an art form where something else is offered at every listen?

I can’t believe that is something that would need to be ‘revived’. But I can only hope that that happens for people who listen to this record. I’d love that. It seems to be the feedback we’re getting so far… that the songs grow on you & reveal themselves the more you listen to them.

I wanted to make a warm, classic, long lasting sound as opposed to a flash in the pan high, which inevitably falls away just as quickly as it rose. Most things in life these days seem to have a short & disposable lifetime. I revere & long for times when there was love given & time spent on simple things.

What inspired you to choose Homebake to showcase this new project?

It was perfect timing. The record will have been out for a couple of months. We will have played some smaller shows in November. And Homebake is being a part of something bigger than any one band. It’s a celebration of music in this country.

What does the Australian music scene mean to you, how important was it to you to record and tour this project in Australia first?

I’m a lover of live shows. And I’m a fan of many great local bands. I think it’s vital that as Australians we are able to connect with music and art that is our own. It represents us & who we are. There is so much ‘entertainment’, be it TV, or movies, or music, that pervades our lives.

So much of it is foreign. It is so important that we hear our own voice, no matter what form it comes in. You can bang on about the economy all you want but its how people feel that counts at the end of the day. And music thrives at this level. It’s important for me to release the record in Australia first. It’s my home.

Who: Toni Collette and The Finish What: Beautiful Awkward Pictures out now on Hoola Hoop Records Where: The Basement When: Thursday November 9

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Craze

Lets go crazy By Fletch

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Who: Craze When: October 19 Where: Home Nightclub With: MC Armanni

an you tell me a little about your musical background, beyond your history of turntablism?

I’ve always been into music as far as I can remember.

I live in Miami so my musical taste is all over the place. I grew up listening to everything from rock to salsa and merengue to Miami Bass to freestyle music to hip hop. Good place for music.

How it is that you have found yourself crossing into dnb from your hip hop roots? Was it a natural progression to faster break beats?

I really like drum and bass, the music and the vibe. I think it was a progression from hip hop because the production is what caught me first. DnB production is amazing nowadays. The speed of the break beat didn’t matter to me, it was just the vibe I got from it.

Can you tell me a little about your approach to a set? The sub-styles you enjoy putting forth and the way in which you compile an evenings mix?

I approach every set differently. I never know what kinda crowd I’m gonna get so I just wait till I get to the club to decide what I’m gonna be spinning. I do like to start my sets on a low bpm and gradually pick it up.

In between that I’ll play all kinda genres.

Do you find that the music that you have played in the past directly influences the music that you play now, or do you always try to re-invent it so that it moves in an entirely different direction?

I don’t think I re-invent myself, I just like to show people other sides to music. I like too much music for me to stay on one thing for too long.

In the midst of your success do you often stop and wonder what it is about your sets that are so well received world wide? Why do you think your style of djing is so popular?

I do wonder sometimes why people like my sets. But I think it’s that a lot of people do like going to clubs and not wanna hear the same kinda music the whole night.

What is the most influential moment you’ve experienced in regards to your music career?

The most influential moments in my music career were when The Allies first got together. We were open to all kinds of styles.

In terms of musical influences, what would you say you borrow most heavily from in terms of what you do?

I take a lot from hip hop. The culture inspires me to make music.

How are your studio and production sessions going, tell me a little about a typical production session.

I’m having a great time making music right now. I finally know how to use the equipment so my ideas come out faster. I usually start with the sample or rhythm first and add the drums later to fit that.

How is the Cartel label going, what do you have planned for that?

Cartel is good but me and Juju haven’t been working that much on music because we’re both feeling other styles right now. We’re definitely gonna start working on some beats soon.

What direction are you looking at heading in in the near future, and what can we expect to see from you in the coming year?

Right now I’m really feeling Miami Bass again. I got a Miami Bass mix cd coming out on Disque Primeur/ Audio Research in the next couple of months. I’m also working on a Bass album with my boy Ash-rock from Hydraulix. I’m working on a hip hop project with my boy R.I.P.P.A. as well.

What are your views on the Australian DNB scene? Are there differences between DNB and HipHop scenes or do you think they carry common elements?

I think Australian DnB is dope right now. The production level is high. Hip hop and DnB is almost like the same thing for me. They both move me.

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Tim Finn

Home is where the art is By Andrew Seccombe

I think I’ve come to understand that the relationship between myself and the “landscape of New Zealand - it’s not so much a sensory relationship, it’s more a philosophical relationship. It’s a place where I find my truth.

creative process. “Doing Splendour in the to still further successes touring with brother Neil, Tim seems to have come full circle, back to Grass, WaveAid, those sort of events, they were amazing. They definitely inspired me and fed the where it all began... process I’m sure. Meeting new people, younger people, all that energy coming back…that’s “Recently with my wife I travelled up to the something I haven’t done in a number of years. very north tip of New Zealand to a place called It definitely lifted me up and nourished the Cape Reinga. It’s a place where the Maori people believe that the spirits depart from when writing.” A veteran of the music industry, Tim has a thoughtful take on the younger generation you die. It has incredible energy. It means of bands, believing that the particularly something different and it’s deeper for me now derivative music from the likes of The Datsuns than it was when I was 25 or 35, which may and Wolfmother is a wonderful thing because it have something to do with having watched celebrates the very essences of rock music. our mother pass away. For a long time I was searching, out in the world, for something that I “There’s so much rock ’n roll now. It’s hard for would feel at home with. But now I know where younger bands to try and rise above that huge home is. I think there’s an underlying sense of deluge. But I think classicism is the answer. I belonging which is really helping my work.” think rather than searching for an eclectic take Tim considers his new record as simply another on it or trying to be original, which is always great if you can do it, there’s always something chapter in the continuum of thirty years of to be said for following a thread that is there creativity but there’s a buzz around the album already and trying to pursue that classicist claiming it is in fact his best solo offering to approach of recurrence. Maybe rock ’n roll can date. Tim describes how many of the songs just recur for one hundred years. I still love were originally conceived when he was touring originality but I think if you can’t be original just as part of The Finn Brothers in the last couple relax with that and follow a certain thing that you of years. “I’d get off the road, write a new song love - music.” and then whilst I was touring I could be playing with them in my head a bit. If there was a piano backstage I could try something out. It was like a little secret world, like a parallel universe.

There’s touring, and it was my gate, my retreat geography and art are inseparable.” Tim Finn from that.” is reflecting on his homeland and how it played Who: Tim Finn a major role in the creation of his new album, Imaginary Kingdom. From the early days of Split He further explains that the thrill of playing What: Imaginary Kingdom, out now through EMI to live audiences also helped encourage the Enz to the mega-popularity of Crowded House, Music

Sound Casino Cha-ching! By Kirsty Brown

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our debut CD is getting released real soon, what can we expect?

Honest old school pop rock, with strong unashamed melodies. It captures the quality of the past but with inspiration from today and tomorrow. Huge guitar sounds, massive piano ballads, some all out ball tearing rock and roll such as Midnight Vandal and Seventeen along with some stadium summer ballads like ‘Don’t You Know’ and ‘The Way’. We think it’s well thought out and easy to live with, and hope the listeners do too.

Who did you work with to get it together and what was the experience like?

It’s produced by ex-Hit Factory producer Rob Feaster who has impeccable credentials in the states, engineered by our own Paul Pilsneniks (The Waifs, The Whitlams, The Living End) and mastered by Greg Calbi in New York who just finished Bob Dylan’s latest record, so we are in some great company. It was amazing working with these guys, they brought some real substance to our vision and really helped the ideas hit the tape. We hope to continue our relationship with this team that really suit Sound Casino.

You say you write ‘real songs, for real life, for real people’ what are you inspired by?

Everything, love, life, heartbreak, success and failure. The songs reflect what happens to us and our friends and maybe you too.

You have close to 25 thousand MySpace friends! How did this happen and how do you feel about the powers of myspace?

We never stop sharing our songs, our moods and our ideas, so after a while people catch on and join in. We write back to everyone we can, we tell the world wide web about our music whenever we get the chance, we blog with friends and like minded bands. We have an international presence through MP3. com.au which has helped lots, and we give downloads of our stuff on 3 Mobile in the UK, Italy and here at home. We think MySpace is a great ideas sharing forum, it helps people see that their world is bigger than they might think. We use it to say “hi” to people we think might like our stuff, as well as a soundboard to improve what we do. MySpace is obviously a great promotional tool but it is also valid, as people don’t have to join, but thankfully they do.

For a relatively unknown band, how do you feel the music scene treats you? What are the upsides and downsides of it?

We absolutely LOVE the music scene, it’s why we do this every day of our lives. We have the lows but without them how can you measure how high the good times are? So far it treats us well, we keep working hard, keep happy and really believe in our sound. Locally it gets better each week, more venues, more supporters of great live music. It’s a beautiful thing. The upsides are it is FUN, we love

to watch an audience get into our stuff, the downsides I guess are being poor and lifting our gear, but hey we aren’t complaining.

received and travel far. Ask us after our show at Candy’s in Sydney on Friday 20th we’ll know lots more then.

What does the future hold for Sound Casino?

Hopefully lots of excitement for all four of us and the extended Sound Casino family, a great summer to start with, lots of new mates, a great sounding record that will be well

Who: Sound Casino When: September 20 Where: Candys Apartment

The Presidents of the USA Peaches, postmen and pure frosting By Dom Alessio

the recession of heavy metal music. And then it was gone.

Following the dissolution of the band in 1998, lead singer Chris Ballew continued his prolific songwriting which resulted in the formation of projects such as The Giraffes, The Feelings Hijackers and The Chris and Tad Show. The band reformed briefly for the unsuccessful Freaked Out & Small LP which saw them trade in their trademark 3 string guitbass and 2 string bassitar for traditional instruments. But now five years after the initial split, with trademark instruments back in hand, a new guitarist and an album entitled Love Everybody, The Presidents of the USA are together once again and back in Australia. Although, they were supposed to be here earlier… or those who can remember the 90s, the “Yes we were,” states Chris with a palpable lyrics “millions of peaches, peaches for sense of frustration. “Our promoter was me”, “she’s lump, she’s in my head” and depending on money from this investor who got “I will survive in my Mach 5” should be instantly cold feet. It wasn’t related to bad ticket sales recognisable. For many of us, the songs of The or anything like that – it was just a money thing.

Presidents of the United States of America were We’re doing our own tour this time and keeping an integral part of the soundtrack of the 1990s; it simple. Nothing can possibly go wrong! a joyful musical period in time that preceded the (Laughs)” rise of manufactured boy bands and followed

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Things, though, did go wrong for the band back in the late 90s, when pressure from the record company took its toll. “We got so caught up in the game and the business of working the records that we forgot about the pure aspect of playing. Back in the old days, especially in the second half of the old days, we weren’t really present at the shows. But now we’re so present and right there. It’s because we have energy to put into it, so the result is that the shows are way better and our whole experience is way better.”

Following the recording of Love Everybody, original Presidents guitarist Dave Dederer left the band to work in public relations, although Chris explains “Dave doesn’t want to ever say he’s out of band – it’s a never-say-never attitude.” The band have recruited new guitarist Andrew McKeag who Chris describes as “killer – he’s great! He’s as talented as Dave, but he’s got more rock n’ roll in his bones.” Chris is even talking about the writing of a new album, although it won’t be for a few years to come.

“One of the things that I want to try to do for the

next record is writing with other people. I might try writing with Robyn Hitchcock, and I’m going to write some with Sean Nelson from Harvey Danger, and Tad [Hutchison from Young Fresh Fellows]. Just try and do a bit of collaborative stuff.”

Chris credits Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic as the man who helped bring the band back together, who requested the Presidents to be his backing band for an awards ceremony.

Now, after a couple of years of touring following the release of Love Everybody, the band will be taking some time off. “Our whole thing right now is concentrating on being right there for the fans that we have. I don’t think we’ll ever be the kind of band that crosses over into the mainstream again. That was a moment in time.”

Who: The Presidents of the USA When: October 22 Where: The Metro Theatre

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I admire Bertie Blackman. She’s young, enthusiastic, and a brilliant songwriter. She’s also managed to develop an impressive underground following since she first registered on the radar with the 2004 release of her debut album Headway, which featured the single Dirty Jeans. Since then, she has disregarded any questions of ‘one-hit-wonder status’ with a slew of powerful and original rock songs..

The pièce de résistance that will cement her place as a serious force in Australian rock is her impressive new album, Black

Opening track ‘Hold Me Close’ is a perfectly aggressive introduction. It’s catchy, driving, the simplicity and spacious mix are perfectly suited to Blackman’s rock n’ roll vocal. Television continues the melodic drive, this time delivering the moody rock with a seductive urgency. Things take a gentler turn with the more laid-back ‘One Day’. The grooving

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This record gloriously begins with the nine minute rock-jazz epic ‘Blessing Force’ which contains chaotic, jittery saxophone that may well give Coltrane a run for his money. Mad chattering voices then arrive without a moment’s notice and countless thriving guitar rhythms energise the song throughout. The next track ‘Gone Beyond’ is considerably mellower: a hazy, folk-psychedelic piece that could soundtrack a thousand sunsets, a thousand farewells.

The dual vocals on ‘No Space In This Realm’ is another charming touch as we hear of “screaming clocks with whirling arms and booming bling and car alarms” amid the flowing, trance-like drumming and horns. The band always appears to have a new trick up their sleeve as next track ‘Lightening Bolt of Compassion’ features lyrics in some distant language, contributing to the general feeling of mysticism that flowers throughout the entire album.

The ‘Family’ seems to be in control of any genre they wish to dapple in and they’re intent on delivering moments of both peace and delirious upheaval. ‘The Rider (Dolpin Song)’ is another radical rock-opera whilst ‘Love and Space’ is a calm, gospellike song that celebrates colours, light and inter-connection. It’s a fascinating record, rich in its mood and musicianship, provided by a group that continues to blossom in such wonderful ways.

A little sample of infinity for you.

Listen while you can…

Andrew Seccombe

arrangement highlights Blackman’s songwriting prowess. It’s climatic and intimate, decorated with effortless piano and a harrowing vocal performance.

‘Fast Bitch’ provides another inspired performance, albeit with a polar opposite temperament. The song is a rocking shambles, guided by a distorted bassline and a vow of accepted emptiness.

It’s dangerous as a reviewer to heap too much praise on an album. It can seem over-the-top and put the reader off. It can also damage your reputation if you are too willing to announce ‘the next big thing’ all the time. But Bertie Blackman’s new album caught me by surprise. It’s a remarkably revealing and exciting collection of rock songs, which avoids the expected moments of filler found on even the greatest artists’ albums. From the opening track to the closing note, Blackman has done herself proud with a bloody brilliant second record.

Tom Whitty

XIU XIU

INGA LILJESTRÖM

The Air Force Shock Records

The dynamism and eclectic tendencies of this band are all perfectly encapsulated in the album’s opening track, ‘Buzz Saw’. It begins with tender piano and fragile vocals only to be then injected with electro-shock rhythms, cymbals and the solemn ringing of bells to finish. The music is daring and fresh, and third song ‘Hello from Eau Claire’ is another standout. It features a relaxed female vocal, coupled with folktronic instrumentation that produces a sort of electronic nursery rhyme that’s layered, intriguing and gives you a new reason to listen with every passing second.

The album does suffer at times during a couple of the more spirited pieces. Thankfully this is not overblown though and the melancholy reflections of ‘PJ in the Streets’ and ‘Bishop, CA’ are perfectly complimented by some sassy, empowering synth and percussion that sounds like it’s straight from a snake’s rattle.

‘Save Me Save Me’ is the highlight of the last few tracks, primarily for the angst that is provoked with its grating strings and Jamie Stewart’s pleading vocals. There’s so much darkness in Xiu Xiu’s music and at times they manage to compliment their morose lyrics with piercing orchestrations that will nail your ear to the wall. It’s music that demands to be listened to. Enough said.

Original, tragic and brilliantly conceived. It’ll seize you from all angles.

Andrew Seccombe

DALLAS CRANE

Quiet Music for Quiet People Vitamin

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Factory Girls SonyBMG

I’m quite the fan of Inga Liljeström and her jazz-inflected trip-hop, so when I heard she was collaborating with a posse of musicians for the Quiet Music for Quiet People improvised project, it definitely piqued my interest. But sadly my expectations haven’t been met.

The LP has been described as ‘broken folk’, which is not a bad description, but musical adjectives are always inadequate. It’s 54 minutes of atmospheric ambience, driven predominately by a string section and Inga’s delicate and husky vocal tone. Almost immediately, the music is relegated to the background – there’s nothing substantial to latch onto. There are moments of melodic joy, but due to the lack of formal structure and the length of the songs, these moments become lost. The album tends to melt into one and it’s difficult to differentiate tracks so by the end you don’t remember anything you’ve heard. With this album being recorded in an improvised nature, you can definitely hear the hesitancy in some of the playing, especially in the drums, which are predominately absent throughout.

The album is by no means a bad album – it crafts an enchanting and gorgeous aural landscape. But it could have been better – and while you’ll find some fantastic moments amongst the music, they’re few and far between.

I have to confess to having a soft spot for Dallas Crane. I’ve seen them play around Melbourne a bunch of times over the past few years, I’ve even met them once or twice and they were really nice guys, despite my drunken attempts at becoming their new best friend… curse you Mr Jack Daniels!

Places you’ll hear Quiet Music for Quiet People: cocktail lounges, Sunday afternoon gatherings at home, health retreats.

Dallas Crane deliver a beautifully stripped back piece of Aussie rock.

Dom Alessio

PARIS

Factory Girls opens with the stomprock feel-good ‘Tonight (There’s A Party Goin’ Down)’. Fuzzy guitars and harmonies drive the song along, setting the upbeat feel for the rest of the album. ‘Marsanne’ follows, sounding like a cross between Queen and early Bon Jovi. It’s sounds intentionally kitsch at times, but stands up on its own as a solid piece of Aussie rock.

‘Lovers & Sinners’ continues the stomp-rock feel, and leads into the first reflective song on the album, ‘God Damn Pride’. The lyrics are so honest, I feel as if Dave Larkin is singing directly to me when he muses, “…to me and everyone you are the man”. Thanks Dave! The latest single ‘Curiosity’, which is currently being hammered by Triple J at the moment, offers a more classic ‘Crane flavour’, with a driving tempo and a progressive outro.

For me, the album hits a questionable patch towards the end but, Factory Girls is another solid release from Australia’s ‘hardestworking rockers’.

Perhaps this abomination of a CD would have fared better had it been marketed as “One Night In Paris – The Soundtrack”.

Because, with the exception of some overproduced beats, all Paris comes down to is a whole lot of oversexed moaning and some other noises which only make sense with night vision videos.

Meanwhile, Scott Storch (who, conveniently, is name dropped every ten seconds), has a hell of a lot to answer for in order to regain any semblance of credibility.

So can Ms Pornstar Paris sing?

Well, she can carry a tune, but if that’s enough to score a record deal these days I should be scouting my nine-year-old sister to EMI. Tracks like ‘Screwed’ are typical Max Martin produced power-pop, but without the balls.

It’s like Pink on a high dose Ritalin, which really isn’t anything to be applauded. The best (and that means, best of the worst) the hotel heiress can muster is a cutesy cover of ‘Do Ya Think I’m Sexy’, the kind of karaoke-bar-meetsbrothel tripe that only somebody this untalented would opt to rerecord.

See, there’s a one good thing about the Paris Hilton record. It makes for an awesome Frisbee.

Which is about as useful as it gets, really.

Jonno Seidler

Tom Whitty

Ê 1 Ê" Ê/ Ê7 GRIZZLY BEAR Yellow House Inertia

Layered, sublime and majestically realized, Yellow House is an album set to dazzle and delight its listeners. In its essence, the music has a nocturnal feel to it, emotive and considered, and a variety of instrumentation adorns yet never overcrowds the carefully assembled works.

a Spit,’ an unravelling, uniquely evolving song which drifts between time signatures and moods, ranging from the mellow to the all-out exuberant. Closer ‘Colorado’ is all the sounds of the electronic night: glitches trickle in and out like insects, like echoes.

‘Plans’ is a spirited track, characterized by whistled melodies, a rousing wind section, hollow percussion and ethereal vocals.

The whimsical, dream-like orchestrations continue with ‘Marla’ with its misery-ridden strings and lyrics that enquire of the whereabouts of the vocalist. It’s strange, but pleasantly so.

The musical influences here are really quite diverse, and the collection of sounds are both distant and intimate but always detailed. Excursions into folktronica and experimental genres shine throughout the record and one is treated to a listening experience that is positively gushing with charms.

The most cohesive guitar work comes with ‘On a Neck, On

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I was awed by ‘Half Dead’ - the first song released to radio from the Goats new album, Get Loney’. It was stark, simple, pure and devastating. Suddenly I understood the adoration of their fans from other than a live perspective.

The Sunset Tree record had never quite caught me. Perhaps its core character - a violent stepfather

JENNY WILSON Summertime The Roughest Time What is it with the preponderance of quality skewed pop emerging from Sweden in the last few years? And can anyone explain the resurgence of the thin, reedy falsetto choruses we’ve copped this decade?

Ms Wilson, having become a mum for the first time, simultaneously began recording her first album outside the aegis of band structures and politics. Its name would be Love and Youth and it became an exploration of the odd energies and general awkwardness that she struggled with as a teenage girl. ‘Summertime’ captures the anticipatory thrill that can rush us at this time of year while undoing it all with the morbidity and doubt characteristic of the age.

Some saccharine sounds morph through clever arrangements into an atmospheric series of ‘girl-talk’ vignettes by the songs end : my favourite - ”hey, watch out for those white desolate teeth.” ‘Grease’ it is not.

– was too particular for my usually ready empathy, or its tone too strident. Nevertheless I was unprepared to be silenced again by a similar mix of barely bedded sounds (acoustic guitar and plucked cello with the slightest of additions for the ‘chorus’) and utterly spare storytelling.

Sadly, the panic, sorrow and stasis that can engulf us in loss is universal. Gladly, we have a humane and humble catalyst here in Mr Darnielle - almost unwittingly unifying those scattered in solitude through the guileless candour of truly great song writing.

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EXPATRIATE Only Wanna Love You

CHRIS STILLS When The Pain Dies Down Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m a big fan of the cessation of pain. It’s so good it’s almost worth initiating suffering just for it’s eventual abatement – just ask my ex!

Unfortunately, the gradual recession of the physical agony of childbirth for ‘French chanteuse Veronique Sanson’ marked only the start of a far more dreadful psychic suffering for the music lovers of Earth. Chris here, spawn also of hippie icon Stephen Stills (of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young) carries forth his fathers proud heritage of soporific stodge, fearlessly incorporating every banality his mind could muster, all wrapped up in the digital age’s indistinguishable production ‘values’. Some undead drummer dude from Jeff Buckley’s band ‘plays’ too. Legal torture…and just as goddamn useless.

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What the?!?

I’m both relieved and perplexed upon hearing this - relieved to hear one of the recent crop of Eighties inspired Sydney bands continue to evolve; and perplexed as the mix of elements herein is so varied and peculiar I doubt one could gauge the nature of the forthcoming album based on them at all - a good sign I’d say.

Producer John Goodmanson (Sleater Kinney, Hot Hot Heat, Blonde Redhead) has given the band a weird mid-range carnivalesque air for the most part; offsetting the risk of cliché, as cocaine references meet the big cheesy chorus, with whack layers of intersecting guitars and keyboard sounds reminiscent of bad ‘China Girl’ era Bowie – in a good way!

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Marsmobil Munich Loves You With ruthless efficiency, German label ‘Compost’ bring us THE OFFICIAL ANTHEM OF MUNICH FOR THE FIFA WORLD CUP 2006!!! Curb your enthusiasm people! Here are the complete lyrics : ”Every girl wants to be like you. Every man wants some love from you. Every day the sun comes shining through. In my dreams I know it shines for you.

You are a natural girl, the way you are, you lift me up and take to the sky. You know when you smile, it’s understood, the golden sun is shining on you. Munich loves you.”

Now, give it some bodgy euro backing complete with lame vocoder vocals like every other piss-weak commercial dance wannabe lately, omit from yr album and flog to a colony.

R.E.M. When The Light Is Mine EMI Music

Alternative-rock pioneers R.E.M. have assembled a fantastic collection of music and footage here, with the DVD consisting of over two hours worth of early videos, live performances and interviews. A lot of the material would largely be unseen by a whole generation of fans: it’s awesome for instance to see Michael Stipe with a head of long, curly hair commanding the stage in front of a live TV audience in 1983. You can see the starpower oozing out each of his pores and it’s mesmerising to see one of rock’s true icons in such an early and crucial period.

Most of the video clips tend to be arthousetype scenarios of the band exploring gardens littered with statues or other such abstractions. Admittedly, a lot of them do tend to feel quite dated but the music is of course so very good that the clips simply serve as a set of fascinating documents that portray a band on the rise. The extras are excellent as well, with some frank and interesting interviews with each band member about the early 80’s music scene, the group’s formation and the perils of homemade beer. All in all, the compilation serves as an entertaining and intriguing look at the beginnings of a band whose influence still resonates twenty years later.

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IT’S CALLED: Belladonnas de Lux at 34B Burlesque Club.

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THE BIT WE’LL REMEMBER IN THE AM: Your favourite performers’ pasties!

CROWD SPECS: Sauve to strange and back again.

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WHERE: 34B Burlesque Club, 34b Oxfo rd St Darlinghurst (next door to spectrum) WHEN: Friday October 20

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CANDY’S APARTMENT

Funksters Epstein lead the charge on Thursday for a night of rock, funk and punk, along with Sonorcast, The Modern Condition and Mayfly Funeral. Then on Friday we have an explosive indie double header which will see Sound Casino and Melbourne’s The Inches absolutely ripping up the Candys stage with their high energy danceable rock, along with support from locals The Holidays, and followed by the Young Blood DJs from 11:30. There’s more good times and fantastic rock on Saturday with Torch Le Monde, Trash Brunette and Autopilot playing, before Big Guns kicks off the electro, breaks, funk and house from 11pm. Where else?

Candy’s Apartment 22 Bayswater Rd, Kings X.

It’s 34B’s first birthday! A whole year of hip shakin’rotatin’cabaret action! Belladonnas de Lux are set to celebrate the occasion with a scrumptious treat of a show with some very special friends. The sparkling Coco de mer, Amelia Wood - leg artiste, The Monsterfying Showghouls,Gidget the Glamour Cherry and the irrepressible Ivy, along with Belladonnas de Lux will all be led astray for the evening by the rambunctious Drew Fairley,and DJ Goldfoot will be your musical pied piper for the night. So come on down and see these Sisters in Grind shake it till they make it! Hope to see you there, shakes and shimmies, B. de Lux. o.x.o. Friday, 20th October Doors 9pm $17,show 10pm 34B 34b Oxford street,Darlinghurst

ANNANDALE HOTEL

Join us for those lazy weekend afternoons as we host some of Sydney’s finest rock’n’roll, old-school and funk DJs, as well as serving up all kinds of classic cocktails and of course everyone’s old Thai food favourites. We will also save a slot each week at THE PORCH SESSIONS for YOU, the puntas, to come and entertain us for 1hr! So come down with your favourite tunes either on cd or i-pod and get groovin’ at THE PORCH SESSIONS. But wait! There’s more...To sweeten the deal we will be judging all weekly punta-Djs by crowd appreciation - and how much our trusty staff’s hips were movin - and just in time for xmas we will be giving the lucky winner the greatest Christmas present of all: AN ANNANDALE GOLD PASS which entitles YOU to FREE ENTRY to any show at The Annandale for 6 MONTHS! Annandale Hotel 17-19 Parramatta Rd Annandale

CIVIC HOTEL

Glitch, Spunds, and SpyNSmash are throwing a huge free party at Civic Theatre this Friday 20th October, Minimal Fuss, with music courtesy of Matt Aubusson, Ben Korbel, Dave Choe, Declan Lee & friends. Minimal Fuss is a party “sans fluff”. Don’t expect red carpet, VIP booths or Bodyrockers. Civic Theatre is perfect for a loose evening of underground hedonism and an intimate, no fuss affair. Everyone’s donating their services free of charge for the very worthy cause of a rocking party for all.

“No frills. Not for profit. Much More Party.

Let’s Get Off It!” Free entry but limited to rsvp only – get onto www.myspace.com/minimalfuss and ask for an invite, if they’ve not all gone.

Civic Hotel Theatre, Cnr Pitt and Goulburn Sts, Sydney 8080 7013.

THE INCHES

CLARE HOTEL

BAT AND BALL

Presented by Fresh Sets and hosted by The Bat and Ball Hotel, this new and exciting initiative aims to showcase the best in local singer-songwriting talent, giving young artists a chance to promote and record their original music. From 7.30pm. ‘Your chance to spot the next big thing!’ – Louise Hall, The Sydney Morning Herald.

Bat and Ball

THE CUSTOM KINGS

BEACH ROAD HOTEL

CLUB BLINK

THE CUSTOM KINGS After supporting the likes of The Cat Empire and The John Butler Trio, acclaimed quintet The Custom Kings will deliver their unique mix of roots, hip hop, reggae and folk at The Beach Rd. Hotel for two Sundays.

With the recent release of their second EP The Merchant songs, expect to sail away to uncharted territories and new pop destinations, complete with tropical hooks and their renowned fragile folk and image drenched storytelling. Sunday 22nd & 29th, Beach Rd Hotel, Bondi. 9130 7247

BOOBYTRAP

Over the past 3 years Boobytrap have brought us a vast array of underground acts including DMX Krew, Daniel Wang, a massive one last week with Tomboy, DJ Kaos, Muscles, the Mercy Arms. The list goes on. But, boy do they sound tired; and if the crew we saw last Saturday morning in Bayswater Road is anything to go by, they certainly look tired… And with that, they’re going to have a little break. No, really Miss you already.

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Get back to The Clare on Saturday nights (and everyother night) and stop paying for over priced drinks and half arsed entertainment that is all about the scene and about being seen! Forget about the attitude and the ego and get back to a real bar, with real people and make your arse groove in our couches. The Clare Hotel opposite UTS. The Clare Hotel 20 Broadway, Ultimo 92112839

THE MERCY ARMS

This Friday night, Club Blink will bring you the party of all parties as we’ll be hosting the LIVE after party as well as launching the new album from PAPA ROACH and showcasing three unreal live bands: INFERNAL METHOD, MURDERWORLD and TENSYLE. All this over multiple levels of the Agincourt Hotel, cnr of George and Harris, right on Central Station. Club Blink is having a huge year and is attracting more people through its doors every week, through providing kick ass parties where the atmopshere is always unreal. This Friday is no exception as Dj B-ZURK and guests bring you the best mix of rock, indie, industrial, goth, punk and metal music around. Never before has a club in Sydney been so diverse, or has bought so many people together, forming lifetime relationships every single week. If you haven’t checked out Blink yet, this weekends a must and just to see who’s reading this ad, everyone that tears it out and shows it to the doorgirl this Friday will get free entry. See you Friday.

The Agincourt Hotel 871 George St, Central 92814566

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COCK N BULL

Bullapalooza!

Sydney’s best tribute rock bands playing at The Cock N bull every Saturday night. Red Hot Chilli Peppers show, Bon Jovi show, Greenday show and more. Come and enjoy our $6 jugs of NEW from 5–9pm.

EQUILIBRIUM

Recently opened Equilibrium is tapping into Sydneysiders thirst for boutique beers.

Equilibrium is located at World Square, right in the heart of CBD’s fastest growing area. The bar brings a smile to the faces of beer enthusiasts across Sydney. Boasting 64 taps plus nine varieties of bottled beer this bar is the antithesis of Slim Dusty’s old song. Beer is not the only thing on offer at Equilibrium. The bar caters for all tastes and is designed in such a way that if you just want to meet for a cosy coffee there are plenty of quiet nooks to escape to. There is also an extensive lunch menu which is available from 11.30am to 3.30pm. There are over 50 items on the menu but most find they cannot go past the traditional Italian pizzas cooked in a wood fired oven.

Equilibrium World Square, Sydney

COLLINGWOOD HOTEL

CRICKETERS ARMS

The usual selection of waifs, wharfies, weirdoes, strangers, stragglers, lookers, hookers and Dave (of course) Ice cold beer downstairs, 2for1 cocktails upstairs on Thursdays in the newly furnished lounge bar, smoke in our courtyard while munching on the delicious offerings of Bunny’s Diner. Bunny’s Diner is open Tuesday to Sunday’s from 5.30. Inspired menu, easy sounds, relaxing surrounds.

Cricketers Arms 106, Fitzroy St, Surry Hills. 9331 3301. www.myspace.com/ mashdmusic

Mid-city at the corner of Martin Place and Elizabeth Street, this underground city bar is all about sleek modern styling with a relaxed, comfortable feel, mixing the best bits from friendly Aussie pubs, Parisian jazz clubs, and New York cocktail bars.

Half price cocktails every Thursday and a loungejazzlatinsoulswing soundtrack 6-9pm courtesy DJ Daddyjazz, spinning cool ratpack vinyl. Fridays from 6pm Pete Farris holds court with a housey after work celebration that gradually takes on a funky flavour as the night hots up and the ties come off. Saturdays are Red Room nite, nominated as Best Club Night at this year’s Urban Music Awards and definitely the city’s best old skool experience, this week with DJ Mac, DJ Rangi and MC Mike Champion. Top eats from the bistro and convenient location too. More details at www.hotelchambers.com.au.

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1200 TECHNIQUES

Liverpool’s AHA Award winning niteclub venue hosts Urban Soul Lounge every Friday, delivering the best ol’ skool DJs, MCs and bands in the west. This Friday 20th the high octane lineup includes DJ Peril and MC Surreal (1200 Techniques, Melb) with DBo, mac and MC Lady Lyric.

Coming soon, international acts DJ Sirvere, DJ D-Form, PNC and Con-Psy on Fri 27th.

The Collingwood is at 321 Hume Hwy, Liverpool, ph 9602 8005.

HOTEL CHAMBERS

NICK TOTH

GOLDEN SHEAF

Upstairs at Soda every Friday, Saturday and Sunday the outdoor Deck bar is the place for breaks, electrofunk and hip hop, all for no cover charge. Highlight?

Regulars Ju Ju and Jeff Fellows (Sunday 4pm-midnight) return for another in their never-ending funk odyssey. Downstairs in the back bar this Wednesday DJ Kitsch spins hip hop and old skool beats alternating every week with DJ Nick Toth. Live music includes the Happy Hippies every Thursday and Reviva (Fri 20th) and Dora D (Sat 21st), plus a regular Sunday live session from 6.30pm. It’s all free. Details www. goldensheaf.com.au, phone 9327 5877.

Ramsgate’s newly refurbished bar and eatery puts a stylish edge on southern Sydney’s entertainment options. At last, a “local” where the cocktail menu is as important as the TV sport. You’ll also find arguably Sydney’s finest selection of top shelf liquor. At the Intersection you can try Grey Goose vodka from France, distilled from French wheat and filtered through Champagne limestone for unparalleled smoothness. Or Makers Mark American Whisky, hand made in batches of just 19 barrels using traditional sour mash bourbon methods. On the DJ tip look out for Lovetown’s relaxed ol’ skool vibe, launching Wed 25th with DJ Pace and D-Bo, plus Mr DJ and DJs from Express every Fri and Sat. Pool comp on Mondays and Comedy Trivia with Maroon from Triple M on Tuesdays.

Intersection Tavern Cnr Rocky Point and Ramsgate Rds, phone 9529 3172.

KELLY’S ON KING

Every Tuesday night we have Irish Jam Sessions where whoever wants to come play can (musicians get one free pint of Guinness!). Karaoke every Friday night – be a star for five minutes, come and embarrass yourselves and test your skills against the best. Don’t forget Sunday Acoustics, featuring local up & coming artists playing every Sunday. Let’s not forget the fantastic pub food available, drink specials and cheap jugs of beer!

Kelly’s On King 285 King St, Newtown 02 9565 2288

THE LAUNCH SQUAD

This week those rootin’ tootin boot scootin’ boys out of The Prickles will be getting on down at the Botany View on Sunday from 6:30pm. Entry is free and the beer is cheap. Wednesday night at the Bald Rock we have some Sitting Ducks, Peter MillerRobinson will be working his way through an intricate set, whilst Grant Lyndon will wow you with his showmanship. Thursday

LOADED

GASWORKS

Brand new 700 capacity venue, state of the art sound and light, decor that’s sleek and chic, huge outdoor area and new garden bar. Opening week goes off with a bang, starting on Friday 20th, with Funktrust DJs Will Styles and Learned Hand, Elroy and MC Antidote, Moneyshot, Cool Hand Luke, and very special guests Kid Confucius playing live. On Sat 21st it’s Stephen Allkins and Love Tattoo (featuring the great Merenia on vocals), Cardboard Funk with Brendan Fing and Husky, Kemuri and James Taylor & MC Losty. Coming up on Thur 26th Electric At Gasworks launches with Regurgitator’s only Sydney show, plus Pinky Tuscadero, DJ PhDJ (Purple Sneakers / Rebel, Rebel) and DJ Knife (Pash).

Gasworks George & Harris Sts, Parramatta, ph 9891 3288.

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night at the Grosvenor sees a stellar line up of acoustic talent with Steve Arkle, GG Thomas + Stephanie Lim. Don’t miss these shows, and for more information check the website out at www.myspace.com/ thelaunchsquad

LIQUID BUZZ

I cannot contain the love and passion I have for The Liquid Buzz. Every Saturday night it rocks out and brings such a diversity of people together, that everyone comes along and parties like there’s no tomorrow. The atmosphere is surprisingly really friendly and uplifting and the tunes, f**ken unreal!!

This Saturday, The Liquid Buzz continues in putting on awesome parties by holding entertainment over multiple levels of the Agincourt Hotel, with live bands on the ground floor: SLEIGHT OF HAND, EACH REVOLVING DOOR, and local stars PORCELAIN GRACE, whilst upstairs on the dancefloor dj’s B-ZURK and ABSYNTH will be launching the new album from the SCISSOR SISTERS, whilst also playing all your favourite, indie, rock, punk, grooves and local music. The Liquid Buzz rox out big time and because of its location (the centre of all band venues in Sydney) hosts weekly after parties for all touring bands in Sydney, it goes off!! Be there, this Saturday. Cut out this article and show door girl on the night for free entry…

Agincourt Hotel 871 George St, Central 92814566

LIVE HOUSE

With a Venue that holds separately up to 250 guests, fully equipped Stage and Nightclub, 3 Bars, 2 Gardens/Smoking areas, Top class Bistro specializing Thai/ French/Australian fusion. Events ranging from Greek Night to Rockfest, Drum & Bass and Acoustic Showcase. On Fridays at 5.30 the Bombshells get undressed then the night gets R&B and on Saturdays Girlz Spot leads the Dance. 5 minutes from the City it’s a short trip to the House of Fun Live House 794 Parramatta Rd, Lewisham 95608755

MANNING BAR

Catch the final lunchtime session for 2006 this Tuesday when the Custom Kings hit the stage at manning. Check out the rising stars of Australian Music Thursday October 12 at the National Campus Band Comp NSW State Final. Thursday 19 October Boundary Sounds & Manning Present ‘The University Social Party’ with Pomomofo (live) + Bright Yellow (live) + DJs – Gus Da Hoodrat (Bang Gang), Fire in the Disco (Purple Sneakers), Nick Findlay (Rebel Rebel), Teenagers in Tokyo, Disorder & Hookie (Star Fuckers), Dan De Cares & Kato (Bandits) + Banshee (The Filth).

Manning Bar www.manningbar.com!

With the race for the Loaded album of the year now approaching the final stages just who will snag the much coveted award? Muse? The Arctic’s??

Starky?? Janet Jackson?? Maybe, maybe, maybe and hardly but don’t post your votes just yet as here comes a serious contender… Yep, Kasabian are BACK and according to Loaded (and pretty much every critic in the universe) they have a masterpiece on their hands. We are of course referring to Empire the second album from the gloriously unshaven Leicester quartet and boy is this album BIG. The Loaded lads tell us that they will be spinning the album in full over the course of the night and also giving away copies to lucky Loaded punters.

Prepare yourself, and bear in mind that demand for the album is going to be huge so turn up early and email Loaded@elvis.com to get on the giveaway list…The lads will also be unleashing the usual mix of classic and cutting edge indie and paying respect to the album of the month for October which is the Dears outstanding Gang of Losers. Requests for anything should be forwarded to ‘loaded@elvis.com’ sometime prior Thursday. Too easy eh?

Also, on the now infamous Loaded new play list will be red hot stuff from the likes of The Klaxons, The Killers, The Dears, The View, Red Riders, Starky, The Fratellis, Badly Drawn Boy, Air Traffic, The Pipettes, Morrissey, Mumm Ra, Bob Evans, TNT, Thom Yorke, James Dean Bradfield, and loads more Email requests, suggestions, birthday notifications (drinks specials for birthday groups) etc to loaded@ elvis.com World Bar 24 Bayswater Rd, Kings Cross 02 9357 7700

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Have you ever seen a drunk Meerkat?

Don’t tell anyone, but Walt has an uncanny resemblance after a few. Could this be the week he gets up and sings ‘Bring it on Home’? Check the blackboard for drinks specials each night. Be nice to Harri and she may make you the best Bloody Mary in Sydney.

This weeks Melt entertainment is: Thursday, from 9pm, Sumthin’ Else. With live jamms, provided by the in house band, Daryll Beaton, Kristian Attard and Rory Toomey fusing soul, jazz and hip hop. Free Entry. $5 Coopers and Bubbly all night long.

Friday night sees Superfreaky feat. DJ’s QJumper, Jude Fox, J Reddy and Guests.

Supplying supersonic grooves for everyday heroes. $10 entry after 10pm. Doors open at 8pm. Saturday night, Cool Fever with DJ’s Qjumper, James Locksmith & Huwston.

8pm start. $10 after 10pm Melt 12 Kellet St, Kings Cross 02 9380 6060

OPERA BAR

Another week of the unique Opera Bar funksouljazzlatinhiphop fusion thing.... Early weeknights the focus is on DJs, blending seemlessly with jazz and soul-flavoured midweek live nights and nasty grooves on Fri and Sat til late. Weekend arvos feature the best of acoustic and jazz, and the week rounds off with Sunday’s regular Sunset Session from 5.30pm til late.

Highlights? On Mon 16th the Groovescooter Selectors take us on one of their typically uplifting and intriguing sonic journeys, through electronica, soundtracks, dub, pop and beyond, and Double Yum Funk Club return Fri 20th. Not forgetting the soulful Fourth Down experience on Wed 18th, and the legendary Work It Out session for CBD wage-slaves celebrating the start of the weekend, every Friday after work at 5pm. It’s all free and so are the views. Great menu too.

Opera Bar Full details at www.operabar. com.au or 9247 1666.

prefer just hangin’ out rather than being relentlessly trendy. Live-wise, soulful Ray Mann has made Sunday arvos his own - the Kid Confucius guitarist/singer/writer is in intimate mode, perfect relaxed Sunday fare from 2pm every week. Also at the Sackville, Stand-Up Comedy next features Chris Franklin, Jackie Loeb and Peter Green on Thursday 19th Oct, all for no charge.

Comedy Trivia every Tuesday. Great awardwinning bistro too.

599 Darling St, Rozelle, ph 9555 7555.

SANDRINGHAM

This Wednesday night is “Under The Covers”. Featuring some of Sydney’s best up and coming singers --- Lauren Victoria, Adrian Sheather, Gabby Huber, Billy Coleman --- this night will have artists putting their own spin on a whole bunch of covers, some well known, some a little more obscure.

Friday night is another show presented by Big Bad Billy and the Rock Formation crew. As with all Rock Formation shows, you know this night will feature top quality bands and a great vibe. Tonight’s bands are Aperture, Meniscus, The Geminus Loco and Fanesky.

Sandringham Hotel, 387 King St, Newtown

SCRUFFY MURPHYS

Scruffy Murphy’s has been a mecca for backpackers and locals alike for years now.

Live bands 7 nights a week means that you never have to sit at home and watch the “Hotdogs Up Late Quiz Show”. All your favourite cover bands like The U2 Elevation Show, The Green Day Show and The Bon Jovi Show are all regulars down here and they’ll have you wanting more. If bands are not your thing, then head on down to the Vault nightclub, you’ll be doing the electric bugaloo all night long.

Scruffy Murphy’s 43-49 Goulburn Street, Sydney 92112002

SLY FOX

The Sly Fox is extending it’s hours and doing some renovations during the month of September. That means the whole hotel will be 24hours. Trading will carry on as usual.

We are moving the DJs down the back of the hotel to make more room and moving the gaming room and the free pool table to the front. We will be adding in some extras to make coming to The Fox a more memorable experience for everyone. Hope to see you there. slyfoxhotel@hotmail.com The Sly Fox 199 Enmore Rd, Enmore 95571016

ROXBURY HOTEL

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The Vic on the Park Hotel on the corner of Enmore & Addison Rds in Marrickville continues it’s proud support of unsigned live music this week. Mondays Singer/Songwriter night has 12 soloists, duos & trios sharing their souls with the world. Thursday is the first of two band nights. 3 local unsigned acts share their music with the focus on quality & musicianship rather than how loud the music can be. Tangerine Project are on stage at 8.30, Kayne Jansens Trio is in the middle spot & Jade Lumbewe Band have the headline set. Saturday night is another night of unsigned music with 4 acts to enjoy.

Add all this to Tuesdays Texas Poker, Wednesdays Crab Racing & members badge draw, Fridays Karaoke & raffles & Sundays live music in the beer garden, why would you go anywhere else? Check out www. viconthepark.com.au for more details.

Vic On The Park Crn Enmore & Addison Rds, Enmore 02 9557 1448

Wine Banq is a sexy subterranean adult playground with it’s glowing bar and comfy padded chairs, it’s the ideal hangout for the young in loves, and hoping to be in love.

Wine Banq has played host to some of the world’s legends of jazz including Harry Connick, Jr., Branford Marsalis, James Morrison, Joshua Redmen, Wynton Marsalis, and Barbara Morrison.

Wine Banq 53 Martin Pl, Sydney 92221919

Sometimes two of best things ever happen simultaneously, and this Friday night at Purple Sneakers is one of those times!

Sneakers management is proud to announce the launch of arguably Sydney’s most impressive pop/rock outfit (and our old friends) RED RIDERS debut LP Replica Replica! In order to properly celebrate, RED RIDERS will be spinning discs alongside resident PhDJ, NICK FINDLAY and JERK JIGGLER! You1d be a fool to miss out on this one, so check out www.purplesneakers. com.au for more details Abercrombie Hotel 100 Broadway, Ultimo 92113486

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Every week at the Roxbury Hotel …

Monday’s: enjoy our $5 Schnitzels.

Tuesday’s: take pleasure in our $5 Bangers’n’Mash Wednesday’s We serve our famous $4 Pasta or join us for a laugh as Comedy on the Rox presents a show case of live comic talent. For more info visit www. comedyontherox.com.au. Thursday’s: your knowledge with our weekly trivia and enjoy a $5 Steak and Saturday’s – enjoy 2-4-1 Cocktails from 7.30pm – 8.30pm Sunday’s: Hosts - Unplugged @ The Roxbury - a weekly acoustic night free from 8pm and $5 Schnitzels Roxbury Hotel 182 St Johns Rd, Glebe 9692 0822

to get in early to avoid waiting in Line. The Debauchary begins at 10pm for $10 all you can eat, tap out, line up or swallow FUN. FOR.EVERY.ORIFICE. Starfuckers every Saturday @ Club 77, 77 William st East Sydney.

STARFUCKERS

The STARFUCKERS CREW this week (Saturday October 21st) urge you to Lock up your Gucci’s, Chanel’s and Dior’s as they have special guests the BAGRAIDERS featuring GUS DA HOODRAT, CHRISTOPHER BRAVE & JACK invading the Batcave. Bagraiders put on a show like no other and are accompanied by THEATRE OF DISCO (Germany) who are playing an Exclusive early live set at STARFUCKERS. IF you haven’t seen these electro rockers perform before in Sydney you will not be disappointed. They are a much talked about band for their dance floor filling tracks, crazy unpredictable costumes and engaging live show. So make sure you get in early, the boys will be on stage at 11pm. When you throw the STARFUCKER Disk Junkies DISORDER, HOOKIE, BOOMS & DONNIE. BLOOD into the mix, you have no excuses to not obey your thirst this Saturday and Elektro Rave at STARFUCKERS. Remember

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MONDAY 16TH OCTOBER ROCK/POP

THURSDAY 19TH OCTOBER

THE UNIVERSITY SOCIAL PARTY: Pomomofo (live) + Bright Yellow (live) + Gus Da Hoodrat (Bang Gang) + Purple Sneakers DJs + Rebel Rebel DJs + Teenagers In Tokyo DJs + Star Fuckers DJs + Bandits DJs + The Filth DJs

Manning Bar 6.30pm $5/USU free

Arban Assault Scruffy Murphy’s free Bernie Observer Hotel 8pm Club Stand Up: The Crazy Little Indian Umit Bali + Suze Moxham Sandringham Hotel 8pm $9 Cult Sinema Monday: The Stuff Annandale Hotel 7.30pm donation Incentive: Sol Levy + The Captains Package + Crash Symphony + Victims Of Sound Hopetoun Hotel 8pm $6 Jimmy Bear O’Malley’s Hotel 9.30pm The Krunch Three Wise Monkeys Pub 10pm Leed Fiends + Luke Escombe & the Corporation + Black Sesame + Jane Eliz Sol’s Deck Bar $8 No Limits Hold Em Poker @Newtown 8pm free Open Mic Night Cat & Fiddle free Sing For Your Suppa Beach Road Hotel free Singer/Songwriter Night: Morad + Rowan Gallagher + Harland + Serelle & Mike Vic On The Park Songwriter Sessions @ The Excelsior Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills 7.30pm free Tarts For Timor II: Blue Jam + East Timor Cultural Dance Group + Maire Sheehan + Jenni Nixon + Cassandra Eager + Wednesday Kennedy + Sonia Bennett + Emily Jane + Ros Dunlop + Amanda Easton Empire Hotel, Annandale 7.30pm $10

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Launch Squad @ Ruby Rabbit November 1st • Bass Camp, Stephn Lovelight

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TUESDAY 17TH OCTOBER ROCK/POP

Animation Mingara Recreation Club 7.30pm BNO Rock Show Scruffy Murphy’s free Bowman Sistas Star City Glo Bar 8pm Bridie O’Brien + Brian Campeau + Zoe Vaughan Supper Club Fairfield RSL 8pm free Camera Four + Beau Monde The Basement 9.30pm $10 Comedy Trivia With Amelia Jane Hunter Golden Sheaf Hotel 7.30pm free Comedy Trivia With Jonas Falling Sackville Hotel 7.30pm free Comedy Trivia Crows Nest Hotel 7pm Evan Moring Riverstone RSL Club 1pm free Incentive: Three Quarters Hazel + Billygoat & the Mongrels + The Shady Band + The Waysiders Hopetoun Hotel James Cooper Manning Bar 1pm Jed Zarb Coogee Bay Hotel 9pm Live sessions with Dave White Cock n Bull 8pm free Lost In The Woods + Unknown Quantity + Mushu + Johnny Vance Sol’s Deck Bar $8.00 Michael Spiby + Hayley Jensen + Ivan Waters Beach Road Hotel 8.30pm free Open Mic Bat n Ball 7pm free Paradyme + Anthony Snape + Detach Sandringham Hotel 8pm $5 Rob Henry Observer Hotel 8pm The Unexpected Three Wise Monkeys Pub 10pm

ROOTS/BLUES/JAZZ

Zion Band

The Field + King Neptune Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills 8pm $12/$8 members Live & Intimate With Mary Kiani Slide 7pm $20 Yuki & John Mackie Jazushi 7pm free

WEDNESDAY 18TH OCTOBER ROCK/POP

031 Band Scruffy Murphy’s free Ben Finn Cock n Bull Hotel 8.30pm Brewster Bros Star City Glo Bar 9.30pm Comedy Trivia Kirribilli Hotel 7pm Complete Trivia Vineyard Hotel 8pm The Cubical + Rob Rhodes & the Farewell Coalition + Assault City + The Rally Cat & Fiddle $8 Darren Carr Observer Hotel 9.30pm Fourth Down Opera Bar 8.30pm free Franky Valentyn Balmain Leagues Club 6pm Hump: Illya + Jamal + Huski + Corina Beach Road Hotel 7pm free Injettison + Minder + Mike Mcrae Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills 8pm $8 Jager Uprising: Luke Webb + Smoking Muskets + Evie Raymond J’s Back Bar 8pm free Jordan Miller & Mark Excelsior Hotel, Glebe 8.30pm free Killswitch Engage (all ages) + Lamb Of God + Unearth Big Top, Luna Park 7pm $65 Mark Brandon ‘Chopper’ Read & Roger ‘The Dodger’ Rogerson Brass Monkey 7.30pm $32

Michael Spiby (Badloves) + Hayley Jensen The Vanguard 8pm $18 Music By Bianca + Nikita Ruby Rabbit 9pm $10 Mystery Guest Ettamogah Hotel 6.30pm Peter Miller Robinson + Sitting Ducks + Grant Lyndon Band Rock Hotel, Rozelle 7pm free Peter Powers Kingaroy & District RSL Club 8pm $27.50 Reckless Three Wise Monkeys Pub 10pm Second Hand O’Malley’s Hotel 9.30pm Suiyobi Style @Newtown 8pm free They Call Me Bruce Coogee Bay Hotel 10pm Under The Covers: Lauren Victoria + Adrian Sheather + Gabby Huber + Billy Coleman Sandringham Hotel 8pm $8 White Bros Orient Hotel 9pm free

World Battle Of The Bands: January Scar + Falling Of One + Darkest Day + Turn Page + The Duchesses Spectrum 8pm $8 The Zion Band + Leanne Paris Band + The Caca Hopetoun Hotel $8

ROOTS/BLUES/JAZZ Blow-Industry Jam Night: Paul Joseph Trio Featuring Mike Nock Stamford Plaza Hotel Double Bay 8.30pm free Carbon 7 Marble Bar 8pm free Deb Bond Deck 23 Bar, Dee Why 6.30pm Dr Feelgood The Mac 9pm free Edwin Duff + The David Smith Trio Bar Me, Kings Cross 7pm $20 G Love & Special Sauce + Whitley The Forum $42+bf Robyn Hitchcock & Venus 3 (Ukusa) +

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Brendan Gallagher The Basement 9.30pm $37 Woodfire Jazz Club: Janos Horvath Trio + Ken James Woodfire Cabaret Restaurant 7.30pm free

THURSDAY 19TH OCTOBER ROCK/POP

Acoustic Showcase Royal Hotel 8.30pm free Alex Lloyd - Secret And Rare Acoustic Show The Vanguard 8pm $30 Ant Novotel Homebush - Brewery 5pm Ben Finn

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Coogee Bay Hotel 10pm Californication - Red Hot Chilli Peppers Show Collingwood Hotel 9pm free Caribbean Soul Star City Glo Bar 9.30pm Darren Nurick Orient Hotel 9pm free Dave White Duo Castle Hill Tavern 9.30pm DJ Ghost Cock n Bull 11pm free Dollshay Northies Cronulla Hotel 8.30pm Down On The Killing Floor + Zumanity Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills 8pm $8 Drew Mcalister Davistown RSL Club 7pm Each Revolving Door

Oxford Tavern, Wollongong 8pm Finis Hominis + The Duchessess + The Volts Sandringham Hotel 8pm $5 Fun Puppet Scruffy Murphy’s free Gemma Observer Hotel 8pm Happy Hippies Golden Sheaf Hotel 9pm free Hot Damn!: Pinky Tuscadero + The Vendettas Spectrum 8pm $10/$8 Hot Hot Hot Canley Heights RSL Club 8pm Jimmy & the Orange Gun (album launch) + Midnight Swim + House Of Orange (Members Of Bertie Blackman Band & Thirsty Merc) + DJ Tully (Purple Sneakers) Annandale Hotel 7.30pm $8 Jive Bombers Parramatta RSL Club John Burns + Black Eyed Angel + Tom Lowe + Dan Bekis Excelsior Hotel, Glebe 8.30pm free Kafe Kool Supper Club Fairfield RSL 8.30pm free Karaoke Hotel Bondi Bom Bora Bar 8pm free Mark Brandon ‘Chopper’ Read & Roger ‘The Dodger’ Rogerson Brass Monkey 7.30pm $32 Michael & Lucas Trio Greengate Hotel 8.30pm The Mix Club 77 8pm $10/free before 9pm Model School + Sub Audible Hum + James Cooper Hopetoun Hotel $10 No Limits Hold Em Poker @Newtown 8pm free Peter Powers Pavillion Gympie 8pm $31.00 Pre-Halloween Party: Glister + Antonamasia + Periah O’Donoghues, Emu Plains 8pm free Rebecca Henry Balmain Leagues Club 5.30pm Robertson Brothers PJ Gallagher’s, Drummoyne 9.30pm

Sam Joole & the Heart Attack Ruby Rabbit Second Hand Duo Mona Vale Hotel 10pm free Sharron Bowman Harbord Beach Hotel 8pm Show Up Show Down: Epstein + The Modern Condition + Sonorcast Candy’s Apartment 8pm $10 Singer/Songwriters Night: Stimulust + Orian + Lydia Monzo + John Chesher + Raynco Manly Fisho’s 8pm free Singled Out Three Wise Monkeys Pub 10pm Skoop: Floyd Vincent + Jesse Morris & the Project + Van Sereno + Itu + The Patrick Carr Project + Doug Sandrini Beach Road Hotel 8pm free Spank* Scruffy Murphys 10.45pm Spoonbill Opera Bar 8.30pm free Stand-Up At The Sackville: Chris Franklin + Jackie Loeb + Peter Green Sackville Hotel 8.30pm free Steve Arkle + GG Thomas + Vic Farrell

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g g guide g send your listings to : gigguide@thebrag.com Mahalia Barnes Grosvenor Hotel 8pm free Strange Tenants + Backy Skank + The Signals Gaelic Theatre 8pm $18 Triangle + Ruby Sue + Sol Levy Tailors On Central $7 The University Social Party: Pomomofo (live) + Bright Yellow (live) + Gus Da Hoodrat (Bang Gang) + Purple Sneakers DJs + Rebel Rebel DJs + Teenagers In Tokyo DJs + Star Fuckers DJs + Bandits DJs + The Filth DJs Manning Bar 6.30pm $5/USU free Williams Brothers PJ Gallagher’s, Parramatta 9pm X-Posed Band Comp: Rampant + Blow Everything Tonight + Walrus + Domino + The Ragdolls Bar Broadway 8pm $8

ROOTS/BLUES/JAZZ Carbon 7 Cargo Bar 7pm free Deb Bond Artichoke Café, Manly 7.30pm The Fifth House Café Church 8pm $15/$10 concession For Folks Sake Cock n Bull 8pm free Grover Woollahra Hotel 7.45pm free The Idea Of North The Basement 9.30pm $22/$18 The Jade Lumbewe Band + Kayne Jansens Trio + Tangerine Project Vic On The Park Mahalia Barnes De Nom, Ruby Rabbit 7.30pm free Slewfoot The Mac 9pm free

FRIDAY 20TH OCTOBER ROCK/POP

1-900 Jam Parramatta RSL Club 9pm

389: Astronomy Class + DJs Prince V + Callahan Beach Road Hotel 7pm free 3to2 + Last Credit + Phatchance + Known Methods Cat & Fiddle 8.30pm $10 Aero - Mark Mcguire Botany Bay Hotel 6.30pm Allstar Cardiff Panthers 8.30pm free Andrew Funnel + Side Fx Freeway Hotel, Artarmon 5pm free Angels & Airwaves Big Top, Luna Park 7.30pm $52.00 Animation R.G. Mcgees 10.30pm The Anthill Mobb Eastern Suburbs Leagues Club 9pm Aperture + Meniscus + The Geminus Loco + Fanesky Sandringham Hotel 8pm $12 Armchair Travellers Duo Lidcomb Catholic Club 8.30pm Bec Hill St George Tavern 10pm free

Ben Finn Novotel Homebush - Brewery 5pm Bill Croft Chester Hill Bowling Club 6.30pm free Blind Side Riverwood Inn 8pm Brad Johns Observer Hotel 9.30pm Butterfingers Gaelic Theatre 8pm $20 The Casino Rumblers + Bagster + Wes Pudsey & the Sonic Aces + Bridgitte Handley & the Dark Shadows Annandale Hotel 7.30pm $10 Chris & Marty Duo Northies Cronulla Hotel 8.45pm The Chronics Ruby Rabbit 8.30pm $10 Club Blink: Infernal Method + Murderworld + Tensyle Agincourt Hotel Darren Nurick Docks Hotel 5pm free Dave White Experience (Duo) St George Motor Boat Club 7.30pm DCMs Compilation Launch: Cuthbert & the Nightwalkers + Richard In Your Mind +

Binta Hellemans + Harry Minassian + Sweet Amphetamines + Tim Hart + Tal Bar Broadway 7.30pm $15 Dean O’Leary Band Hotel Paragon 6pm free The Devoted Few + Vrag + The Marching Room Spectrum 8pm $10 DJ Express Paddington Arms Hotel 9.30pm DJ Gav + DJ Ghost Cock n Bull 8pm free Drew Mcalister Club Menai 8.30pm Elevation U2 Show Scruffy Murphy’s free Endless Summer Beach Party Mount Druitt Workers Club 8pm Fridays At Selina’s Coogee Bay Hotel 9pm $10 Funkstar Crows Nest Hotel 9.30pm Funpuppet PJ Gallagher’s, Parramatta 8.30pm Great Gig In The Sky - 4th Annual Pink Floyd Celebration The Basement 9.30pm $28/$24

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Red Riders

Hitchcock’s Regret + Troy Henderson The Warmup Lounge, Erina Leagues Club Holloway Street + Sonic Birds Blacktown RSL 8pm Hooray For Everything Courthouse Hotel 11pm Hugh Williams Collingwood Hotel 4.30pm free Hugh Mondo Maroubra RSL Club 8pm free Hypnosis St Mary’s Rugby Leagues Club 12am Jellybean Jam Jolly Frog Hotel 10pm Jo Elms Duo Star City Glo Bar 6pm Johnny G & the E Types (Memphis Soul Review) The Vanguard 8pm $18 Jonathan Lee Jones Fortune Of War Hotel 8pm Jukebox Alley Matraville RSL Club 8pm free Junto + Each Revolving Door + Sourpin + Lout

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Party Beat Riverstone RSL Club 8.30pm free Paul Clarke Richmond Club 9pm free Peachy Mona Vale Hotel 10pm free Peter Powers Hervey Bay Boat Club 8.30pm $26.00 Psychedelic 60’s Spring Happening: The Beatels + Jay Katz + Miss Death & the Sounds Of Seduction The Marquee 8.30pm $20 Purple Sneakers: Red Riders + PhDJ + Nick Findlay + Jerk Jiggler Abercrombie Hotel 8pm $10/free before 9pm Radio Bandits Hotel Paragon 9.30pm free Reason 2b Cheerful Docks Hotel 8.40pm free

Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills 8pm $10 Kath Nelligan Three Swallows Hotel 7pm Kid Confucius + Funktrust DJs + Mc Antidote Gasworks, Albion Hotel 9.30pm $15 Latin Power Star City Glo Bar 10pm The Liberated Citizens + Quick 50 + The Savage Gardeners + The Hot Box Palace Hotel 8pm Live + Shannon Noll Entertainment Centre 7.30pm $85.90 Makin’ Whoopee Star City Lobby Lounge 9.30pm Makin’ Whoopee Sydney Boulevarde Hotel 12pm Mike Mathieson Riverwood Legion Club 8.30pm Monkey Pi Fitzroy Hotel, Windsor 9.30pm Nova Tone Manly Warringah Leagues Club 8.30pm Panorama Three Wise Monkeys Pub 10pm

Reckless Orient Hotel 9pm free Reviva Golden Sheaf Hotel 9pm free Rob Henry Observer Hotel 8.30pm Ryans Place Manly Fisho’s 8pm free Saturday Night Divas Supper Club Fairfield RSL 7.30pm free Sean Mack Greengate Hotel 8.30pm Second Hand Coogee Bay Hotel 10.30pm Seven Year Itch Sands Hotel Maroubra 6pm Singled Out Paddy Maquires, Haymarket 9.30pm Soap Opera

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Revesby Pacific Hotel 10pm Sound Casino + The Inches + The Holidays Candy’s Apartment 8pm $10 Stayin Alive - Bee Gees Story Hornsby RSL Club 8pm $15 Steve Tonge Duo Harbord Beach Hotel 8pm Tim Shaw Brewhouse Pub 7.30pm Tyrone Noonan + George Byrne + Tom Cooney Hopetoun Hotel $15 The Unexpected Castle Hill Tavern 7pm Van The Man The Point 9pm free Weather Underground + Ute Van Camper Excelsior Hotel, Glebe 8.30pm free Williams Brothers PJ Gallagher’s, Drummoyne 9pm X-Posed Band Comp Heat 1: Streetlight Theatre + Desires Overrated + Anthem + Endless Now + The Last Minute Caringbah Bizzos 8pm $10 Yum Club Liverpool 7.30pm free Zebedee + The Dolly Rocker Movement + Limousine Oxford Tavern, Wollongong 9pm free

ROOTS/BLUES/JAZZ B’dussy The Mac 9pm free Blue King Brown @Newtown 8pm $12 Carbon 7 Civic Hotel 7pm free Coda + Carla Werner Brass Monkey 7.30pm $14 Jan Preston Trio Balmain Leagues Club 7pm Jazzgroove + DJ Spicer @Newtown 8pm free Jess Green Septet Sound Lounge, Seymour Centre $17/$12 members Mark Lucas & the Dead Setters Orange Grove Hotel, Leichhardt 8pm free

Blue King Brown Moonlight Serenade: The Helen Fenton Big Band Woodfire Cabaret Restaurant 7pm $43 Nicky’s Irish Sessions Cock n Bull 8pm free Pierre Dorge & the New Jungle Orchestra St James Church, Newtown 8pm $50 Steve Edmonds Band + Blicka Empire Hotel, Annandale 8.30pm $10

SATURDAY 21ST OCTOBER ROCK/POP

1-900 Jam Caringbah Inn - Saloon Bar 9pm The 3b’s Dapto Citizens Bowling Club 7pm free After Party Band Mona Vale Hotel 10pm free Akinga Supper Club Fairfield RSL 9pm free

Alex Greengate Hotel 8.30pm Annandale Pub Markets & Vintage Record Fair Annandale Hotel 11am free Anything Goes Katoomba RSL Club 8.30pm free As Long As It Grooves Exchange Hotel 9.30pm Baktrax: DJs Regal + Carly Beach Road Hotel 6pm free Bang Shang A Lang Unity Hall Hotel 9pm free Beau Smith Duo Star City Lobby Lounge 9.30pm Ben Finn Club Burwood 6pm Best Boys Star City Glo Bar 6pm Bliss Docks Hotel 6pm free Chill Scruffy Murphy’s free Chris Drummond

Chester Hill - Carramar RSL 8pm free Crash Avenue Three Wise Monkeys Pub 10pm Daredevil + Damarill + Happy Hour Manly Fisho’s 8pm $10 Dave Stevens Observer Hotel 4.50pm Dave White Experience Wallarah Bay Recreation Club 8pm David A Duo Orient Hotel 9pm free Days Like Stars + The Glass Army The Beach Hotel, Newcastle The Dead Walk + Just Say Go + Bad Blood + Homewrecker Annandale Hotel Beer Garden 7.30pm $10 Dollshay Kemps Creek Sporting And Bowling Club 9pm Dora D Golden Sheaf Hotel 9pm free Elton John Experience Umina Beach Bowling Club 8.30pm free Elvis & the Time Capsule Show Jamberoo Bowling & Rec Club 8pm $15.00 Fervent (ep launch) + The Morning + Lyceum Vic On The Park 8pm Flipside Padstow RSL Club 6.30pm Franky Valentyn Balmain Leagues Club 7pm Fremantle Doctors Docks Hotel 2pm free Funkstar Tracks - Epping Hotel 10pm Funpuppet Coogee Bay Hotel 10.30pm Furr 11th Birthday: Mz Ann Thropic + Dead Inside The Chrysalis + Bad Art + DJ Neo Tokyo @Newtown 8pm $12 Gary J PJ Gallagher’s, Drummoyne 9.30pm Great Gig In The Sky - 4th Annual Pink Floyd Celebration The Basement 9.30pm $28/$24 GTS Courthouse Hotel 11pm Ice-9 + Nogudnik + In The After

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Sandringham Hotel 8pm $5 James Morrison The Vanguard 8pm $30 Jellybean Jam Blacktown RSL 10pm Jimmy Bear O’Malley’s Hotel 9.30pm John Mcque Richmond Club 8.30pm free John Pickworth Big Band Matraville RSL Club 8pm free John Williams Bexley RSL Club 7.30pm free Johnny Casino & the Secrets + Tiger By The Tail + Pink Fits + Messmakers Hopetoun Hotel $8 Josh Orange + The Live Room + Samuel Cat & Fiddle 8pm Keith Armitage Harbord Beach Hotel 8pm The Kid PJ Gallagher’s, Parramatta 8pm Latin Power Star City Glo Bar 10pm

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The Liquid Buzz: Each Revolving Door + Sleight Of Hand & Porcelain Grace Agincourt Hotel 8pm Leo Sayer + Sharon O’Neill Sapphire Showroom, Fairfield RSL 8pm $35 Makin’ Whoopee Ettamogah Hotel 6pm Mark Calder El Cortez 8pm Mark Chopper Read Show Turkey’s Nest, Mona Vale Hotel 8.30pm $30 Marlow (The Deftones tribute) + Mookie Blalock (Pearl Jam tribute) + Mimic (Tool tribute) + Not Write Now (Red Hot Chilli Peppers tribute) Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills 8pm $10 Mike Allen Arncliffe Scots Club 8.30pm free Monkey Pi Marlborough Hotel 10.30pm Moody Moods Freeway Hotel, Artarmon 6pm free National Pornographic + Miss Anthropic + Charlie McMahon

Marquee $8 The Nevilles Penrith RSL Club 9.30pm Nova Tone St George Motor Boat Club 7.30pm One Hit Wonders Bayview Tavern 10.30pm Peppermint Jam A.J.C. - Members Bar 5pm Peppermint Jam Crows Nest Hotel 9.30pm Peter Powers Across The Waves Sports Club 8.30pm $29.50 Pink Stik (all ages) + Sunset 3 Wesley Hall, Hamilton 7pm $10 The Radiators Fitzroy Hotel, Windsor 11pm Reckless Wyong Leagues Club 9pm Red Hot Chilli Peppers tribute + DJ PJ + DJ Ghost Cock n Bull 8pm free Rephrase Opera Bar 8.30pm free Rob Henry Duo Maroubra RSL Club 8pm Roughstock Riverstone RSL Club 9pm free Satisfaction - Salute To Mick Jagger & the Stones Eastwood Oval 6.45pm Saving Grace + Aerobleu + Mark Flores Excelsior Hotel, Glebe 8.30pm free Singled Out Paddy Maguires, Star City 10.30pm Starfuckers: Bagraiders + Theatre Of Disco + Starfucker DJs: Disorder + Hookie + Booms + Blood Club 77 10pm $10 Stayin Alive - Bee Gees Story South Sydney Juniors Club 9.30pm $15.00 Stuart Hamilton Cardiff Panthers 8.30pm free Summer Nights - Grease Show Blacktown RSL 8pm Taylor Observer Hotel 4pm Theatre Of Disco

Club 77 11pm $10 They Call Me Bruce Royal Hotel 11.30pm free Too Groovy Riverwood Legion Club 8pm Torch Le Monde + Trash Brunette + Achtung Candy’s Apartment 8pm $10 The Unexpected Northies Cronulla Hotel 8.45pm Vanlustbader + Altona Spectrum 8pm $10 The Vipers Dicey Rileys 9.30pm Weekend Porch Sessions: DJ Jay Katz (Sounds Of Seduction / Fbi) Annandale Hotel Beer Garden 3pm free Wildcatz Mawson Club 9.30pm

ROOTS/BLUES/JAZZ Blue King Brown Gearins Hotel 8pm $12 Deadwood 76 + Fat Dusty + The Ride Ons + Dandelion Empire Hotel, Annandale 8pm $10 Deb Bond Deck 23 Bar, Dee Why 7pm Dwayne Elix & the Engineers Bankstown Trotting Club 8pm Gauche - Siesta Cinema The Studio, Sydney Opera House 9pm $25/$20 The Idea Of North + Dog Walking Backwards Eastside Music Café 8pm $20/$15 James Muller Trio Sound Lounge, Seymour Centre $17/$12 members King Farook The Mac 9pm free Mitch Grainger Opera Bar 2pm free Moonlight Serenade: The Helen Fenton Big Band Woodfire Cabaret Restaurant 7pm $43 Shindig Irish Sessions

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Davistown RSL Club 12.30pm Misty Mountain Parramatta RSL Club 4.45pm Molly Rasher Scruffy Murphy’s free Monkey Pi Three Wise Monkeys Pub 10pm Mystery Guest Observer Hotel 4pm Peter Byrne Orient Hotel 8.30pm free Philuke Observer Hotel 7.30pm Presidents Of The United States Of America Metro Theatre 8pm $48 The Real Thing - U2 Show Cock n Bull Hotel 8.30pm Rebecca Jensen Trio Golden Sheaf Hotel 6.30pm free Reckless Cabramatta Leagues Club 1.30pm Rex Sets: Custom Kings + DJ’s Coco & Shambles Beach Road Hotel 5pm free Rockaholics Mount Druitt Workers Club 3.30pm free The Rocky Stevensons + Joely Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills 5.30pm free Second Hand Northies Cronulla Hotel 6pm Soul Station Star City Glo Bar 4.30pm Tim Shaw Coogee Bay Hotel 7.30pm U2 Elevation Orient Hotel 4pm free The Unexpected Three Wise Monkeys Pub 6pm Weekend Porch Sessions: DJs Nervetonic Annandale Hotel Beer Garden 3pm free White Bros Docks Hotel 1.15pm free White Bros PJ Gallagher’s, Parramatta 7pm Williams Brothers Star City Glo Bar 10pm

ROOTS/BLUES/JAZZ Craig Calhoun & the Brothers Of Oz The Mac 5pm free Eon Beats Project Woollahra Hotel 6.30pm free Giant Steps plus DJ Daddyjazz Opera Bar 1.30pm free Irish sessions with Nicky Cock n Bull 8pm free Jackie Orszaczky’s Sunday Skool + Justine Clarke The Studio, Sydney Opera House 7pm $30/$25 Kerosene Empire Hotel, Annandale 7pm $10 Marie Wilson Trio Balmain Leagues Club 12am Moonlight Serenade: The Helen Fenton Big

Band Woodfire Cabaret Restaurant 7pm $43 Moussa Diakite & the Afro Jazz Café Sydney The Prickles Botany View Hotel 6pm free Quantum Lounge @Newtown 7pm free Ray Mann Sackville Hotel 2pm free The Tango Saloon The Vanguard 7.30pm $15 Tyrone Noonan (George) + George Byrne + Craig Woodward Brass Monkey 7.30pm $14 Wildrice The Crabshack 12.30pm free

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AFTER THE FALL

STREET CRED After The Fall have been keeping busy, with the lads being added to the mighty CocaCola Live national tour. You all know the deal, get onto the coke website and redeem tickets. But be careful, my dentist told me that Coca-Cola is the worst thing you can drink for your teeth! Anyways, the Sydney show is on November 4 at Acer Arena.

Killswitch Engage, Lamb of God, Unearth and locals I Killed The Prom Queen are playing their long-sold out show at Luna Park Big Top on October 18.

The insanely huge Gigantour tour thunders through this week with Megadeath, Soulfly, Arch Enemy and Caliban all onboard at the Hordern Pavillion.

This is the week that Frenzal Rhomb finally release their new album, Forever Malcolm Young. Be very quick as the first pressing will include a bonus DVD. The Annandale goes a little bit rockabilly and a little more ska this Friday night, October 20, as Casino Rumblers, Bagster, Wes Pudsey & The Sonic Aces, Brigette Handley & The Dark Shadows will be in full swing!

Speaking of Ska, The Strange Tenants are one of Australia’s oldest ska acts, and are touring once again. They play October 19 at the Gaelic Club and October 20 at the Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle.

The Dead Walk! have been blazing around the country lately, and Sunday October 21 sees them at the Annandale with Just Say Go, Bad Blood and more.

Tom Delonge, anyone remember him? Well he has left Blink-182 for good and is heading up Angels & Airwaves. So he and his new band (and new hair style) will be locked and loaded for their show at the Luna Park Big Top on October 20.

The upcoming Less Than Jake tour is getting closer and closer. Make sure you grab a ticket for their shows on November 2 at the Manning Bar (Lic/AA), November 3 at Shellies, Wollongong and November 4 at the Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle.

Gyroscope are back from their successful trip to South Africa, and have bunkered down once again to continue writing their third album

PROFILE Avail (USA)

RELEASE Go and buy 4 a.m through Fat Wreck Chords It’s been 8 years since I last saw Avail at the Metro with Lagwagon. I wasn’t much of a fan before that, but loved them after it! It’s nice when a band blows you away on stage like that. Anyways Resist Records are bringing the band out this time and the shows are promising to be something special.

AVAIL DATES October 24 – Annandale Hotel w/ Irrelevant, Lifefarce, Huntsman October 25 – Cambridge Hotel w/ Perish The Thought, Dropsaw, Nothing Days

LIVE October 20 – Luna Park Big Top w/ Angels & Airwaves, Mink October 21 – Great Northern, Byron Bay w/ Cog, Sunk Loto October 22 – Century Theatre w/ Presidents of the United States of America October 26 – Manning Bar w/ Raised Fist October 27 – Annandale w/ Something With Numbers, Fifty Sixx October 28 – Annandale (AA) w/ Something With Numbers, Fifty Sixx October 28 – Sandringham Hotel w/ Straight Jacket Nation, AVO, 4Dead, Hard Luck October 29 – The Compound, Enmore (AA) w/ Straight Jacket Nation, No Appologies, 4Dead, Homewrecker November 3 – Manning Bar w/ Nevermore November 4 – Gaelic Club w/ Nevermore November 4 – Annandale Hotel w/ Nursery Crimes, Grand Fatal, Bagster, Bow & Davis

CD REVIEW I AM GHOST

Lover's Requiem Epitaph Records The opening operatic ‘Crossing The River Styx’ is a nice way to throw you off guard and then let you have it full-force with gothic post-hardcore rock of ‘Our Friend Lazarus Sleeps’.

Taking their cues from the Euro-Metal scene and fashioning it around the screamo movement I Am Ghost have something quite unique, and it certainly does grow on you. Unfortunately with so many acts adopting the metal/screamo style it does start to feel a little used in parts. The female vocal lightens things enough and give the entire album a glow that is missing from most.Rating: 3.5/5 BRAG :: 181 :: 16:10:06 :: 59

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presented by chugg entertainment special guests: mink 19/10/06 brisbane/tivoli theatre 20/10/06 sydney/big top 22/10/06 melbourne/festival hall

THE CAT EMPIRE *

presented by myspace.com, to die for clothing & destroY all lines Featuring: i killed the prom queen, carpathian, her nightmare, the valley, 50 lions, the daylight curse, cry murder, the red shore & circle the sky 27/10/06 sydney/manning bar 28&29/10/06 melbourne/hi-fi bar

AFI presented by frontier touring special guests: the bleeders 12/11/06 perth/metro 14/11/06 adelaide/thebarton theatre 16/11/06 melbourne/festival hall 18/11/06 sydney/hordern pavilion 19/11/06 brisbane/convention centre

AIRBOURNE * 15/11/06 17/11/06 22/11/06 24/11/06 25/11/06 26/11/06 01/12/06 09/12/06

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featuring: soulive 17&18/11/06 sydney/enmore theatre 19/11/06 canberra/stage 88 22&23/11/06 brisbane/tivoli theatre 30/11/06 adelaide/thebarton theatre 01&02/12/06 melbourne/forum theatre 03/12/06 hobart/moorilla estate 29/12/06 perth/belvoir theatre

KASEY CHAMBERS * presented by Nova (nationwide), Drum, Inpress, Rhythms, Time Off, Rip It Up, Bunbury Hot FM, Mandurah Coast FM, Geraldton Spirit FM & Kalgoorlie Hot FM special guests: angus & Julia Stone 05/11/06 newcastle/civic theatre 13/11/06 sydney/opera house 14/11/06 brisbane/convention centre 15/11/06 sydney/metro 19/11/06 canberra/royal theatre 20/11/06 melbourne/forum theatre 21/11/06 melbourne/arts centre 22/11/06 adelaide/festival theatre

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featuring: evermore, the veronicas, end of fashion, after the fall, the hot lies, the oceans, dead day sun, straight to the ace, for minute mile & stealing oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;neal 25/10/06 perth/burswood dome 28/10/06 adelaide/entertainment centre 02/11/06 melbourne/rod laver arena 04/11/06 sydney/acer arena 05/11/06 brisbane/enterainment centre

BIG DAY OUT presented by lees & west, triple j & channel [v] Featuring: tool, jet, muse, violent femmes, scribe, the killers, eskimo joe, my chemical romance, peaches & herms, evermore, spank rock, the sleepy jackson, the herd & the spazzys 21/01/07 gold coast/parklands 25/01/07 sydney/showground 28/01/07 melbourne/princes park south 02/02/07 adelaide/royal adelaide showground

TONI COLLETTE & THE FINISH * 09/11/06 10/11/06 18/11/06 19/11/06

sydney/the basement sydney/@newtown melbourne/northcote social club melbourne/east brunswick club

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sydney/manning bar perth/capitol adelaide/uni bar melbourne/corner hotel brisbane/arena

FROM AUTUMN TO ASHES presented by killrockstar touring, atticus clothing & macbeth shoes featuring: the bled special guests: the getaway plan 22&23/11/06 brisbane/basement 24/11/06 sydney/gaelic theatre 26/11/06 melbourne/hi-fi bar 29/11/06 adelaide/fowlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s live 02/12/06 perth/amplifier bar

ERASE ERRATA * presented by popfrenzy special guests: macromantics 16/11/06 canberra/transit bar 17/11/06 sydney/spectrum 18/11/06 melbourne/east brunswick club 20/11/06 perth/rosemount hotel 22/11/06 adelaide/rocket bar 23/11/06 brisbane/powerhouse

MICK HARVEY * 15/11/06 17/11/06 20/11/06 24/11/06

FALLS FESTIVAL presented by triple j featuring: hilltop hoods, eskimo joe, scribe, the sleepy jackson, the mountain goats, little birdy, the exploders, jen cloher & the endless sea, dan sultan, modest mouse, the bees, michael franti & spearhead, wolfmother, john butler trio, saul williams, the black seeds, matt costa, the audreys, youth group, josh pyke, blue king brown & jamie lidell 30/12/06-01/01/07 victoria/lorne 30/12/06-01/01/07 tasmania/marion bay

brisbane/powerhouse sydney/@newtown melbourne/spiegel tent hobart/republic bar

HOMEBAKE presented by triple j, channel [v], video hits, drum media & myspace.com featuring: silverchair, eskimo joe, hilltop hoods, scribe, gotye, you am i, youth group, bjorn again, the butterfly effect, the presets, the models, bob evans, toni collette & the finish, little birdy, infusion, midnight juggernauts, kid kenobi & mc sureshock, parkway drive, augie march & angus, julia stone something for kate, the vines, wolf & cub, jen cloher & the endless sea, british India, children collide, die! Die! Die!, red riders, ground components, Nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;fa, something with numbers, the basics, the vaine, the valentinos, mountains the sky, tom cooney, macromantics, whiskey go goâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s &tucker bâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 02/12/06 sydney/the domain

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fremantle/metropolis theatre fremantle/fly by night adelaide/thebarton theatre melbourne/hi-fi bar sydney/enmore theatre canberra/theatre centre newcastle/panthers brisbane/tivoli theatre

KILLSWITCH ENGAGE presented by blue murder special guests: lamb of god, unearth & i killed the prom queen 17/10/06 brisbane/arena 18/10/06 sydney/big top 19/10/06 melbourne/palace hotel 20&21/10/06 perth/capitol

LEGS 11 presented by network 10, myspace.com, the brag & drum media featuring: Tim Rogers & Tex Perkins with The Sydney Youth Orchestra, Sarah Blasko, Little Birdy, Bob Evans, Clare Bowditch & the Feeding Set 27/10/06 sydney/the domain

LIVE * presented by michael coppel presents special guest: shannon noll 19/10/06 newcastle/entertainment centre 20/10/06 sydney/entertainment centre 21/10/06 brisbane/entertainment centre 23/10/06 adelaide/entertainment centre 24/10/06 perth/challenge stadium

MAGIC DIRT * special guests: gersey 28/10/06 sydney/annandale hotel 03&04/11/06 hobart/republic bar 10/11/06 melbourne/corner hotel

MEREDITH MUSIC FESTIVAL Featuring: datarock, rose tattoo, midlake, the soundtrack of our lives, city of ballarat municipal brass band, the new pornographers, the drones, girl talk, combo la revelacion, augie march, tapes ‘n tapes, the presets, concertino trio, my disco, the bamboos & band of horses 08-10/12/06 meredith/supernatural ampitheatre

KYLIE MINOGUE presented by frontier touring 11-12&14/11/06 sydney/entertainment centre 17-18&20/11/06 brisbane/entertainment centre 23-24&26/11/06 sydney/acer arena 30/11&01/12/06 adelaide/entertainment centre 04-05&07/12/06 perth/burswood dome 10-11,13-14&16-17/12/06 melbourne/rod laver arena

MY FRIEND THE CHOCOLATE CAKE * 16/10/06 melbourne/spiegel tent 25&26/11/06 melbourne/east brunswick club 01/12/06 sydney/@newtown 02/12/06 canberra/tilley’s cafe

TYRONE NOONAN * 20/10/06 21/10/06 26/10/06 27/10/06 03/11/06

sydney/hopetoun hotel newcastle/northern star hotel adelaide/jive bar melbourne/northcote social club brisbane/columbian bar

PYRAMID ROCK FESTIVAL presented by channel [v] & triple j featuring: silverchair, the living end, xavier rudd, ugly duckling, evermore, the freestylers, end of fashion, mylo, the beautiful girls, faker, lior, karnivool, mia dyson, ash grunwald & bomba 29/12/06-01/01/06 victoria/phillip island

THE SCARE

THE SCARE * 27/10/06 28/10/06 02/11/06 03/11/06 17/11/06

melbourne/ding dong lounge adelaide/jive bar canberra/green room sydney/spectrum brisbane/columbian hotel

SHE WANTS REVENGE presented by frontier touring special guests: moscow schoolboy 18/01/07 brisbane/the zoo 19/01/07 sydney/gaelic theatre 20/01/07 melbourne/corner hotel

SOMETHING WITH NUMBERS * 27&28/10/06 sydney/annandale hotel 03/11/06 melbourne/east brunswick club 04/11/06 adelaide/enigma bar 10/11/06 brisbane/the globe 18/11/06 perth/rosemount hotel 19/11/06 fremantle/mojos 23/11/06 hobart/republic bar

TRUE LIVE * 20/10/06 melbourne/corner hotel

27/10/06 newcastle/lucky country hotel 28/10/06 sydney/the vanguard 04/11/06 brisbane/columbian bar

THE WHITLAMS * 27/10/06 newcastle/panthers 04/11/06 hobart/wrest point casino 08/12/06 sydney/metro theatre

ROBBIE WILLIAMS presented by chugg entertainment special guests: sneaky sound system 01/12/06 perth/subiaco oval 05/12/06 adelaide/aami stadium 09&10/12/06 sydney/aussie stadium 13&14/12/06 brisbane/suncorp stadium 17&18/12/06 melbourne/telstra dome

YOU AM I * 03/11/06 sydney/metro 05&06/11/06 melbourne/prince of wales 10/11/06 adelaide/hq 11&12/11/06 perth/hyde park backroom * Check local guides for more dates & details

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live reviews whats been crossing our ears this week....

HARD-FI STARKY

The Enmore Friday September 27 Massive props to Starky, possibly the most kick-ass support band since a relatively unknown Sarah Blasko opened for the Polyphonic Spree in January 2005. Frontman Beau, with his eclectic get-up, wild sense of humour and deadpan cynicism really communicated with the audience, who, though initially sceptical, finished their beers and clamoured in to hear this local quartet rock the house. What was so refreshing about Starky was their phenomenal musicianship; the fact that despite their tunes had a heavy emphasis on 80s new wave, they possessed the professionalism of a 70s funk band. Every song was a cracker, and the crowd were soon singing along to tracks they hadn’t even heard before.

Of course, nothing could have prepared the crowd for the force of the Hard-Fi gang. As the entry music started and jailhouse searchlights darted across the walls, there was a sense of nervous anticipation. That is, before Hard-Fi literally bum rushed the stage, stalking and screaming like a bunch of freshly released prisoners. As the lights went up, we were treated to our first view of the madman that was Richard Archer. He was even freakier in real life, with lily-white skin, crew-cut and piercing blue eyes he came off like the bastard child of Chucky and A Clockwork Orange. As his face contorted into a number of gruesome shapes, the band launched into ‘Middle Eastern Holiday’, and the crowd went sick.

So, how did a bunch of relative unknowns manage to amass such a huge audience reaction? Confidence. Archer and Frankenstein-esque bassist Kai Stevens commanded the stage, striding about angrily as if they were about to crack any minute. And it worked, the crowd was genuinely thrilled, not to mention the boys’ comment about Melbournians which got everybody’s blood pumping. Halfway through the set, Archer spared us the niceties, demanding that every last person got “Out of their fucking chair! You’re not seeing a film!”

For a band with a year of experience and only one proper record under their belts, Hard-fi had more talent than many groups hope to achieve five years into their career. The final encore, ‘Living For The Weekend’ was possibly the most ecstatic rock’n’roll moment of my life, as everybody surged towards the stage in a fever of excitement. And the afterglow continued, with raucous twenty-somethings screaming “I’m livin’ for the weekend!” all the way down Enmore Road. This is the kind of thing that a DJ just can’t replace. Long live guitars, bass and drums.

Jonno Seidler

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THE GHOSTS THE VENDETTAS

Annandale Hotel Saturday September 30 There’s something quite Blondie-esque about The Vendettas.

Their cute as a button front woman writhes, teases and bounces onstage during up tempo tracks such as ‘Numbers’, while convincingly playing the role of tortured indie girl in ‘Strangers’ The touching track could easily fit in an early 90’s compilation, right between Roxette’s ‘It Must’ve Been Love’ and Extreme’s ‘More Than Words’. Their unpolished first live show is endearing, however with songs with such staying power, you feel kind of bad for expecting just a little bit more from the band.

There’s a bunch of industry types scattered around the room watching The Ghosts very closely. The fresh faced band has appeared out of nowhere, with word of mouth spreading the news about their quirky melodic rock. The band who have only been playing in this line up for six weeks; play a strong set encouraged by the crowd. Their youthfulness is reflected in their lyrics, “So baby please don’t stop I’m in a spell” and frontman Gabriel’s earnest delivery. The band is worth keeping an eye out for in the future.

Van She do not need an introduction. Tonight they are playing a few dates before they jet off to the U.S and the UK, testing out new material and delivering their synth pop rock to fans. The band are clearly influenced by bands that the cool older brother figure from your childhood liked. There’s a hint of ELO and Human League throughout their new tracks, while songs such as ‘Mission’ and ‘Kelly’ are playful and seductive in their own 80’stinged way. The band once again pout and pose onstage at the Annandale, allowing us to catch a glimpse of a smile every now and then. Van She are clearly doing something right- judging from the sold out show and good looking fan base.

Jessica Tsui

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Who stood in for Brian Wilson when he had a breakdown?

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What Beach Boy song, written by Brian Wilson, did Paul McCartney refer to as “the most beautiful song ever written”?

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Dennis Wilson died in December of 1983. How did Dennis die?

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What is the original title of the never released Smile album?

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Answers: 1. Glenn Campbell 2. ‘God Only Knows’

3. He drowned, leading to Brian’s fear of the sea shortly afterwards.

4. Dumb Angel.

PANIC! AT THE DISCO KISSCHASY SOMETHING WITH NUMBERS Hordern Pavilion Thursday October 5

Typical conversation leading up to tonight: V: “Oh so I’m reviewing Panic! At The Disco.”

X: “Shiiiiiit – emocore! Make sure you wear red and black.”

V: “And my emo glasses.”

X: “Dyyying insiiide!”

ROFL x17 Indeed, ‘painfully emo’ was the expectation going into it. However, strip the uniform away and what you’re left with is a bunch of excited prepubescent kids who have been looking forward to their one show of the year like for ever, and are vehemently determined to have a good time.

Openers Something With Numbers are, unexpectedly, pretty dance punk. Their singer jerks about the stage like he’s being shot through with lightning bolts - a little chilling, but well-received nonetheless, judging by the pulsing mass screaming indiscriminately with delight. Excitement! Excitement!

Kisschasy follow; a slightly odd choice for main support musically, but probably entirely appropriate for the demographic. They play the radio favourites, and the crowd recognises them and throws themselves into it simply because they are up for it, buzzing on Red Bull and anticipation.

Now, having read about the grandiose circus themed sets the band plays on in the US, the Hordern’s purple backlit stage is positively stark in comparison. However, the band themselves have no problems creating a strong presence, both numerically – 3 guys on keys alone, some dude on cello, etc – and with their epic songs. Suited up, the singer prances the stage, and when ‘I Write Sins, Not Tragedies’ booms on, the crowd erupts, a heaving knot of bodies and camera phones (and yes, we sing along unabashedly). But then, alarmingly, he steps behind his keys and pounds out Radiohead’s ‘Karma Police’ and Smashing Pumpkins’ ‘Tonight’ – cue confusion and tumbleweeds (and yes, we sing along unabashedly). Despite this, P!ATD are a lot less emo and a lot more plain anthemic - if you can get 7000 14 year olds to sing ‘…it’s much better to face these kinds of things with a sense of poise and rationality’ with no self-awareness whatsoever, then you’re doing something right.

Vivian Huynh

PARKLIFE Kippax Lake Sunday October 1

I am no longer a Parklife virgin, thank you for popping my cherry.

An interesting day I had nonethelees, despite the moments of temporary discomfort that come with said cherry popping.

Arriving mid afternoon, I wound my way through the gates and was pretty awestruck by the location. Why is Kippax Lake not used as a venue for festivals more often? The Lake is a beautiful chill out area and despite the dustiness of some of the stages, it was a generally green and comfy ground to dance around on. The Stanton Warriors kicked things off for me, thumping good songs that had the entire crowd moving, including me and I hadn’t even had a Red Bull yet…

Next up, the awesomeness that is Cut Chemist, if only I could be bothered to make my way through the writing sea of flesh to get closer. Cut Chemist really needs to be seen to be believed. With more tricks up his sleeve then a shonky musician, he was my highlight of the day. I did leave early though to catch some of Peter Hook’s set. Never have I seen an old man spin that vinyl with such fervour. A sight to behold… and the music wasn’t too bad either.

The Midnight Juggernauts were straight after and their electro mix was the perfect music to see out the fading light, they could have closed the night for me and I would have been chuffed.

But, it was left to Who Made Who and they where the undoubted highlight of the day, jumping around and creating an absolute ruckus of fun. Trust the Danish to melt our faces so easily…

Kirsty Brown

MSTRKRFT

MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS (LIVE) AJAX THE KNIFE MACHINE THE FORUM Saturday October 7

Outside, it’s cold, quiet, still. Step inside The Forum however and it’s a microcosm of heat, sweat, hormones, angles, neon, disaffection, disease, and expectations. Another Modular Monthly, in other words.

The Knife Machine get the early slot but they deploy their techno death upon a nearcapacity room, the duo grinding faces off with a harsh mix that prompts Jesse F. Keeler to dissolve into a swooning teenage girl (hearsay of course, but we’ll take it). Midnight Juggernauts follow, and while live they usually don’t quite reach the heights of their recorded material, tonight they are completely on. It could be the room, the crystal sound, or just a whole vibe thing, but the songs spiral up blithely.

There’s a bit of a mood kill when a Modular rep decides to do a weird, awkward intro to MSTRKRFT, but the mood is swiftly restored when the duo grace the stage. Al P is bent over studiously over the decks while JFK slams his body around to the beat the entire time, both of them pounding out slamming techno both familiar and new, a relentless thud-thud-thud that hits like a brick to the face. From above the crowd looks like a sweaty writhing mass of limbs, one that explodes with applause and screams when the remix of Metric’s ‘Monster Hospital’ fills the room – an electronic singalong? Why the fuck not. Jesse sporadically takes to the mic for ‘how you doin’s, but it’s when he invites people to jump on stage and a wave of people rush up, a hundred or so in mass riot, peaking their faces off and grinning stupidly, happily, that yields the postcard shot of the night. Afterwards Ajax #1!!! continues the party with his booty rave, sending himself and everyone else into a frenzy (and by ‘frenzy’ we mean ‘Ajax gets so excited he starts jumping up and down madly and causes the track to skip’).

Really though, all you need to know is the night was one big YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES Vivian Huynh

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venue listings

The Eastern 500 Oxford St, Bondi Junction 9389 4004 Hermans Bar Ground Level Wentworth Building Sydney University 9563 6255 East Village 234 Palmer St, Sydney 9331 5457 Elephant and Wheelbarrow 384 Oxford Street Paddington 9360 9668 Empire (of Annandale) Cnr of Parramatta Rd and Johnston St, Annandale 9557 1701 Enmore Theatre 130 Enmore Rd, Newtown 9550 3666 Entertainment Centre 35 Harbour St, Darling Harbour 9320 4200 Epping Hotel 58 Beecroft Rd, Epping 9876 1855 Equilibrium 644 George St Sydney 8272 2412 Excelsior Hotel Surry Hills 64 Foveaux St, Surry Hills 9211 4945 Excelsior Hotel Glebe 101-105 Bridge St, Glebe 9660 7479 Fairfield RSL 14 Anzac Avenue, Fairfield, NSW 9727 5000 The Fringe Bar 106 Oxford St Paddington 9360 5443 The Gaelic Club 64 Devonshire St, Surry Hills 9211 1687 Gas Nightclub 467 - 477 Pitt St, City 9211 3088 Gaslight Inn 278 Crown St, Darlinghurst 9360 6746 Golden Sheaf Hotel 428 New South Head Road, Double Bay 9327 5877 Goodbar 11a Oxford St. Paddington 9360 6759 Greenwood Hotel Blue St North Sydney 9964 9477 Grosvenor Hotel 153 Phillip St, Waterloo, NSW 9698 2904 Hanky Panky Brighton Bar 77 Oxford St, Darlinghurst Hard Rock Cafe 121-129 Crown St, Darlinghurst 9331 1116 Havana Bar Customs House, Circular Quay 9251 8683 Havana Club De Luxe 169 Oxford Street 9331 7729 Headquarters 138 Parramatta Road, Camperdown 9557 1615 Hermann’s Bar Cnr of City Rd And Butlin Ave Sydney Uni, Darlington 9563 6036 High Flyer Hotel Marion St (Cnr Birch St), Condell Park, 9791 9000 Home Nightclub 100 Wheat Rd, Darling Harbour 9266 0600 Hopetoun Hotel 416 Bourke St, Surry Hills 9361 5257

Hugo’s Lounge Level 1/33 Bayswater Road, Kings Cross 9357 4411 Hunter Bar 50 Hunter St, City 9223 6511 Judgement Bar 189 Oxford St, Darlinghurst 9360 4831 Kelly’s On King 285 King St, Newtown, 9565 2288 Kings Cross Hotel 248 William St, Kings Cross 9358 3377 Kink Arthouse 275 Pitt St, City 9284 1200 Kinselas 383 - 387 Bourke St, Taylor Square 9331 3100 Ladylux 2 Roslyn St, Kings Cross 0402 242 798 Landsdowne Hotel 2-6 City Rd, Chippendale 9211 2325 Le Panic 20 Bayswater Rd, Kings Cross 9368 0763 The Loft 3 Lime St, King St Wharf 9299 4770 The Lounge 277 Goulburn Street Darlinghurst 9356 8888 Live House 794 Parramatta Rd Lewisham 9560 8755 Macquarie Hotel 42 Wentworth Ave, Surry Hills 8262 8888 Mandarin Club 396 Pitt St, Sydney 9211 3866 Manning Bar @ Sydney Uni, City Rd Chippendale 1800 013 201 Mansions 18 Bayswater Road Kings Cross 9358 6677 Marrickville Bowling Club Cnr Sydenham Rd and Fitzroy St Marrickville 9557 1185 The Marquee Club 128 Pyrmont Bridge Rd, Camperdown 9557 0221 Mars Lounge 16 Wentworth Ave City 9267 6440 Melt Bar 12 Kellet St Kings Cross 9380 6060 The Metro Theatre 624 George St, City 9264 2666 Mylk Lounge 163 Oxford Street, Paddington 9360 0823 Mocean 34 Campbell Parade, Bondi Beach 9300 9888 Mona Vale Hotel Crn Barrenjoey Road & Park Street, Mona Vale 9999 4214 Moulin Rouge 39 Darlinghurst Rd, Kings Cross 8654 1711 Newtown Hotel 174 King St, Newtown, 9517 1728 North Bondi RSL 120 Ramsgate Ave North Bondi 9130 3152 Peppermint Lounge 281 Victoria St, Kings Cross 9356 6634 Phoenix Bar 34 Oxford St., Darlinghurst 9331 1936

Plan B Bourbon Bar 24 Darlinghurst Rd, Kings Cross 9358 1144 Plantation Bar 2a Roslyn St, Kings Cross 9360 7531 The Privilege Bar 70 King Street (Corner of King and George Street) Sydney Q Bar 44 Oxford St, Darlinghurst 9360 1375 R-Rated 33 Bayswater Rd, Kings Cross Rogues Nightclub 16-18 Oxford Square, Sydney 9380 9244 Ruby Rabbit 231 Oxford St, Darlinghurst 9326 0044 Safari 24 Darlinghurst Rd, Kings Cross 9358 1144 Sapphire Suite 2 Kellett St, Kings Cross 9331 0058 Sandringham Hotel 387 King St Newtown 9557 1254 Scary Canary 469 Kent St, Sydney 9267 7718 Scruffy Murphy’s 43 -49 Goulburn St Sydney 9211 2002 Spectrum 34 Oxford St, Darlinghurst 9331 6245 Slip Inn 111 Sussex Street, Sydney 8295 9999 Sly Fox 199 Enmore Rd, Enmore 9557 1016 State Theatre 49 Market Street 9373 6852 Sol’s Deck Bar Cnr Flinders & Oxford St, Taylor Square, Darlinghurst 9360 8868 Strike Entertainment Quarter Fox Studios 9383 4291 Stonewall 175 Oxford St, Darlinghurst 9360 1963 Sydney Superdome Olympic Boulevard, Sydney Olympic Park 8765 4321 Tank 3 Bridge Lane, City 9240 3094 Tonic Lounge 62-64 Kellett St, Potts Point 8354 1544 UNSW Roundhouse UNSW Anzac Parade 9385 1000 UN Nightclub 1/33 Oxford St., Darlinghurst 9267 7036 Utopia Records 505-525 George Street, Sydney 9283 2423 The Vanguard 42 King St, Newtown 9557 7992 V Bar 111 Liverpool St, City 9264 9188 Verandah Bar 60 Castlereagh St, Sydney 9238 0888 Vic on the Park Hotel 2 Addison Rd, Enmore 9557 1448 Watershed Hotel Harbourside Shop 198 , Darling Harbour 9282 9444 Wine Banq 53 Martin Pl Sydney 2000 9222 1919 World Bar 24 Bayswater Rd, Kings Cross 9357 7700 Yu Nightclub 171 Victoria St, Potts Point 9358 6571

34b 34b Oxford St, Darlinghurst 9360 1375 Abercrombie Hotel 100 Broadway, Ultimo 9211 3486 Agincourt Hotel 871 George Street, Sydney 9281 4566 Annandale Hotel 17 Parramatta Rd, Annandale 9550 1078 @ Newtown 52 Enmore Rd, Newtown 95575044 Arq 16 Flinders St, Darlinghurst 9380 8700 Arthouse 275 Pitt St, City 9284 1200 The Basement 29 Reiby Place, Circular Quay 9251 2797 Bar Broadway 2 Broadway, Broadway 9211 2321 Bat N Ball Hotel 495 Cleveland St, Surry Hills 9699 3682 Beach Road Hotel 71 Beach Rd, Bondi 9130 7247 Bizzos 22-24 Mackay Street, Caringbah 9524 7358 Hotel Bondi 178 Campbell Parade, Bondi 9130 3271 Botany View Hotel 597 King St, Newtown 9519 4501 The Bourbon Bar 24 Darlinghurst Rd, Kings Cross 9358 1144 Brass Monkey 115a Cronulla Street, Cronulla 9544 3844 Brighton Bar 77 Oxford St Darlinghurst Burdekin Hotel 2 Oxford St, Darlinghurst 9331 3066 Cambridge Hotel 789 Hunter St Newcastle West 4962 2459 Candy’s Apartment 22 Bayswater Rd, Kings Cross 9380 5600 Cargo Bar And Lounge 52-60 The Promenade King Street Wharf 9262 1777 Castles 114 Castlereagh St City 9261 2238 Cave Nightclub Star City Casino, Parramatta Rd, Pyrmont 0402 327 733 The Civic Hotel 388 Pitt St, City 8080 7000 The Clare Hotel 20 Broadway, Ultimo 9211 2839 Club 77 77 William St, Kings Cross 9361 3387 Club Cactus One World Live 1/1-25 Harbour St, Darling Harbour 9264 520 Cock N Bull 89 Ebley St Bondi Junction 9389 3004 The Colombian 117-123 Oxford St, Darlinghurst 9331 2151 Cricketers Arms Hotel 106 Fitzroy St, Surry Hills 9331 3301 Docks Hotel 225 Harbourside, Darling Harbour 9280 2270 Dragon Fly 1 Earl Place, Potts Point 9356 2666

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MONDAY 16TH OCTOBER

The Bourbon Late Night Lounge DJs Rich Nicol, Pete Farris, Shaun Keble & Naverone 10pm Opera Bar Groovescooter Selectors 8.30pm free

TUESDAY 17TH OCTOBER The Bourbon Late Night Lounge DJs Rich Nicol, Pete Farris, Shaun Keble & Naverone 10pm Bungalow 8 Bungalow all you can eat Tuesdays DJ Kali 5pm free/All you can eat Mussels and Chunky Fries $18 Establishment Motel Rumba Latin jazz and Salsa with DJ Willie Sobar and Pete Farris 6pm free Fringe Bar Eat Pizza Tuesdays Fringe tunes plus all you can eat pizza 6pm $15 The Gaff Coyote Tuesdays MC Toddy, DJ G plus Coyote dancers & singers and wet t-shirt comps free before 10pm Opera Bar DJ Matt Hoare 8.30pm free

pick of the week THURSDAY 19TH OCTOBER

DJ Craze + MC Armanni Home 9pm $33

WEDNESDAY 18TH OCTOBER The Bourbon Late Night Lounge DJs Rich Nicol, Pete Farris, Shaun Keble & Naverone 10pm Beach Road Hotel Hump 7pm free Chelsea Hotel DJ Sandy Scanlan 8pm free Cherri Jam Velvet Rope 9pm $10 Columbian Hotel DJ Lexi Bradfield 8pm free Cruise Bar Ladies Night Disco Lou & Marina 6pm free Equilibrium BBB Beer, Band and BBQ free Establishment Mid Week Mix Up Nic Phillips and Craig Patterson 6pm free Fringe Bar Wednesdays at the Fringe DJ Tenzin 6pm free The Gaff MC Todd plus ‘beat the clock’ meals 9pm free Golden Sheaf Hotel DJ Kitsch 9pm free Golden Sheaf Hotel Soda Bar Ping Pong DJ Nick Toth 9pm free Hotel Bondi Zinc Bar DJ Bertoz 11.30pm free The Loft Wednesdays at the Loft Scott Rashleigh 5pm free Mars Lounge Niche Matt Jenkins, Mattje, Sasa plus Augusta Miller on vocals 6pm $10/free for hospitality industry Newtown Hotel She Like Her!

THURSDAY 19TH OCTOBER Abercrombie Hotel Inhale Beach Road Hotel Skoop 8pm free Bligh Bar DJ Joe Smith 6pm free The Bourbon Late Night Lounge DJs Rich Nicol, Pete Farris, Shaun Keble & Naverone 10pm Bungalow 8 Thursdays at Bungalow 8 DJs: Dale Stephen, John Mclean 6pm free Chelsea Hotel DJ Dookie 8pm free City of Sydney RSL RNB Playaz DJ Gunz, Mizzy, Biggie, Lyriks, Demo free before 12am/$10 after Club 77 The Mix 8pm $10 Columbian Hotel Co-Lab, DJ Damian Goundrie 10pm free Equilibrium Girls Night Out 6pm free Establishment Old Skool Funk Banging out all your old funk and new soul favourites with Regal, Shaun Keble and Joshy 6pm free Flinders Hotel Health Club 8pm free The Gaff I Love 2 Flirt DJ G, Matty Eskoss, MC Toddy 9pm 70 :: BRAG :: 181 :: 16:10:06

Home DJ Craze + MC Armarnni 9pm $33 Hotel Bondi DJ Ryannie 11pm free Hotel Chambers Manhattan Moods DJ Daddyjazz 6pm free Hotel Cremorne The Club Dance and RnB 11pm-3am Hunter Bar Funktrust Goodfella, Learned Hand, Will Styles, The Hustlers, Adam Bozzetto, The Mild Playa, Dr Seuss 10pm $15 Intersection Tavern DJ Mr DJ 8pm free Kinselas Hotel Chapel Bar The Wax 9pm free The Loft Fat Black Pussy Cat DJ Ricky Albert, Mr Smith, Eon Beats Trio 5pm free Manning Bar University Social Party Pomomofo, Bright Yellow, DJs: Gus Da Hoodrat, Purple Sneakers, Rebel Rebel, Teenagers in Tokyo, Star Fuckers, Bandits, The Filth 6.30pm $5/USU free Melt Sumthin’ Else live jams & DJ Mr Chad 8pm free Mona Vale Hotel Booty Bar Thursdays DJ Rob Brizzy 10pm free Newtown Hotel DJs: Ben Drayton, Gemma and Seymour Butz 8pm free

The Pavilion Hotel Wanted Thursdays Yoshi, Archie, Chia, Matrix, Suae, Tempa, Arbor, Kinetix 10pm $15 Q Bar Prom-is-Q-ity 9pm-late free Ruby Rabbit Outie 9pm free Ruby Rabbit Rock + Roll Mother F@#ker 9pm free Sackville Hotel Chris Franklin, Jackie Loeb, Peter Green 9pm free Sapphire Suite Deeper Love Alex Taylor, Matt Roberts, Husky, Dave Manna, Sam Gee Star Bar Infamous Spectrum Hot Damn!

8pm free Vegas Bar Bad Club 8pm free The World Bar Loaded Porch, Bibs, Wild Willie 9pm

FRIDAY 20TH OCTOBER 34b Deep as Fu*k RifRaf, Marcotix, Jo Dee 10pm $5/free Abercrombie Hotel Purple Sneakers Red Riders, PhDJ, Nick Findlay, Jerk Jiggler

8pm $10/free before 9pm Agincourt Hotel Club Blink 9pm $10 Arq Evolve 1st Birthday Freakulizer, DJ Shane Gobi, Raptor, Dark Child, Stephen Allkins, Ben Et, Sveta, Ben Drayton, Galaktik, 9.30pm $36 Beach Road Hotel 389 7pm free Beauchamp Hotel DJ Cal 10.30pm free Bexley North Hotel Ruby Lounge DJ Reckdacon, DJ Faze, DJ Tito 9.30pm free Bligh Bar DJ Claudie Sutra 6pm free Blue Sydney DJ Mr Smith 7pm free The Bourbon Late Night Lounge DJs Rich Nicol, Pete Farris, Shaun Keble & Naverone 10pm Bungalow 8 Bungalow Fridays DJs: Paul Master, Sound Hustler, Mild Playa, Cameron Douglas 6pm free Burdekin Hotel My House or Yours James Elder, Damn Right, Mylz 10pm $5 Candy’s Apartment Young Blood Son Of Yaacob, Voodoo, Adam Phillis, L-YN-C, Ed Coyle, Pride, Roomaris, Swee Ling, Lonsdale, Gun’N’Roxy, Guy Taylor 11pm $20/$15 before midnight Cargo Bar Timmy 5pm free Cargo Lounge Scott B 6pm free Chelsea Hotel DJ Rob Milton 9pm free Chinese Laundry Break Inn Kid Kenobi & MC Shureshock, Defcon 1, Basskleph, Shamozzle, Dopamine, The Impossibles 10pm $20/$15 before 11pm Civic Hotel Saloon Bar Club Civic Funky house and party tunes 5pm free Civic Hotel Theatre Minimal Fuss DJs Dave Choe, Ben Korbel, Declan Lee, Matt Aubusson 9pm Clovelly Hotel DJ Kitsch 8.30pm free Club 77 Kooky Kooky DJs Gemma & Seymour Butz 10pm $10 Collingwood Hotel Urban Soul Lounge DJs D-Bo, Mac, Peril & MC Surreal, plus MC Lady Lyric 9pm $5 Columbian Hotel DJs: Lexi Bradfield, Chip 9pm free Coogee Bay Hotel The Love Shack 9pm $10 Coolabar Club Boulevard Moto, Qrius, Stanley The Cross Heart DJ Tim Sea Epping Hotel Retro Night DJ Wolfie Equilibrium Hotel Whisper Lounge RnB DJs 10pm $10 Establishment The Weekend Starts Here Craig Patterson, Jonny Powell and Joshy mixing up the hottest beats to get your weekend started! 6pm free Fringe Bar Fringe 5pm free The Gaff Matti Eskoss, Matt Nuke, Arlie, DJ G, MC Todd 9pm $10/$5 before midnight/free before 11pm Gasworks, Albion Hotel Opening Night Funktrust DJs (Will Styles & Learned Hand), Elroy & MC Antidote, Cool Hand Luke, Moneyshot and special guests Kid Confucius live 9.30pm $15 Golden Sheaf Hotel DJ Mr DJ midnight free Golden Sheaf Hotel Soda Bar Chi Chi Friday DJs Johnny Was & Shaun Keble 9pm free Hermann’s Phace, Saukra, Chris J, Dauntless, Dred, Highly Dubious, Mad Cow 8pm $25 Hill St Tavern Southside Tikelz, Naughty, JLyrics, Browski free Home Sublime Hotel Bondi Zinc Bar RnB DJs 11pm $5 Hotel Chambers DJs Peter Farris & Young Apprentice 6pm free Hunter Bar Soultrain Hip hop, funk, soul and RnB 10pm Intersection Tavern DJ Express 8pm free The Loft Loft Fridays DJs: Jamie Lloyd, Somatik 6pm free Melt Super Freaky DJs: Qjumper, Jude Fox & J Reddy 8pm $10/ free before 10pm Mona Vale Hotel Cruisy Fridays 8pm free Moulin Rouge Rouge Rock-R

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10pm $10 Mylk Fingered Launch Rob Kay, Husky, Micko, Bazz, Matty J, John Glover, Brenden Fing, Tekneex 10pm Newtown Hotel Frazzle Dazzle 9.30pm free Opera Bar Work It Out after-work session with DJ Johnny Was 5pm free Opera Bar Double Yum Funk Club 8.30pm Peppermint Lounge Dusted Elroy, Seven, Johnny Rad, Tom Piper $10/free before 10pm Phoenix Bar Bandits DJs Gus da Hoodrat, Kato and Kid Kash + special VIP weekly guest DJs 10pm $10 Plantation Jumunji Q Bar DJs Wallace & Grommit 9pm $15/free members The Roxy Suburban Anthony K & Ben Vickers Ruby Rabbit Heavy Petting Handles & Vu, Patto 10pm $15 Sackville Hotel DJ Ju Ju 10pm free Tailors Plastic Yoshi, Archie, Chia, Matrix, Suae, Tempa, Arbor, Kinetix 10pm $20/$15 Tank Our House Tim Phin, Yogi, Goodfella, Shamus 10pm $15/ free before midnight Tonic Lounge DJ Huwston, Steve Lind 8pm $10/free before 9pm V Bar Funk Shaker Tokai, Brenden Fing, Elwood, Dirty Double, Pato, Polar, Table Trash 9pm $10 Vegas Bar Rocknroll DJs midnight members free

SATURDAY 21ST OCTOBER @Newtown Resonance Deepcool, DJ Spicer with Dan on trumpet 8pm free Agincourt Hotel The Liquid Buzz 9pm $5/free before 11pm Annandale Hotel Weekend Porch Sessions 3pm free Arthouse Hotel Kink 9.30pm $25 Beach Road Hotel Baktrax 6pm free Beauchamp Hotel DJ Ricky Albert 9.30pm free Bexley North Hotel Ruby Lounge B-Scene 7pm Blue Sydney DJ Graham Mandroules 8pm free The Bourbon Night Fever Chavez, Rich Nicol, James Mac, Yianni 7pm $10/free before 10pm Bungalow 8 Bungalow Nights DJs: James Locksmith, Husky, De Ritz 6pm free Candy’s Apartment Big Guns Spanners, Hansom, Chris Mees, Matt Roberts, Morgan Kent, Newtorious, Azza United, Tish Tash, Justin Burtin, Goose, Shaun Keating 10pm $20/$15 before midnight Cargo Bar Cargo Caludio 5pm free Cargo Lounge Scott B 6pm free Chelsea Hotel DJ Dookie 9pm free Chinese Laundry Laundry Jon Carter, Matt Nugent, Jamie Doom, Don’t Panic, Jeff Drake, Steve Lind, Tim Sea & Noel Boogie 9pm $20/$10 before 10pm Civic Hotel The Booty Bar Tikelz, Sesh, Lenno, MC Jaz, Peter Gunz, Tony Vass 9.30pm $20 Clarendon Tavern Party DJ 9pm free Clovelly Hotel DJ Daddy Jazz 8.30pm free Club 77 Starfuckers Bagraiders, Theatre of Disco, Starfucker DJs: Disorder, Hookie, Booms, Donnie Blood 9pm $10 Collingwood Hotel DJs PJ & Tache 9pm free Columbian Hotel DJs: Peter Ferris, Rennae Stanton, Miss G 9pm free Embassy Hotel RnB, Hip Hop, House 8pm free before 10pm Epping Hotel DJ Super Wolfe Establishment Crush Lady Tre, Handles and Rachael 6pm free 72 :: BRAG :: 181 :: 16:10:06

picks of the week WEDNESDAY 18TH OCTOBER

Establishment Mid Week Mix Up Nic Phillips and Craig Patterson 6pm free

THURSDAY 19TH OCTOBER Flinders Hotel Health Club 8pm free

SUNDAY 22ND OCTOBER

FRIDAY 20TH OCTOBER The Cross Heart DJ Tim Sea

Gasworks, Albion Hotel Opening Night Funktrust DJs (Will Styles & Learned Hand), Elroy & MC Antidote, Cool Hand Luke, Moneyshot and special guests Kid Confucius live 9.30pm $15 Phoenix Bar Bandits DJs Gus da Hoodrat, Kato and Kid Kash + special VIP weekly guest DJs 10pm $10

SATURDAY 21ST OCTOBER

Club 77 Starfuckers Bagraiders, Theatre of Disco, Starfucker DJs: Disorder, Hookie, Booms, Donnie Blood 9pm $10

SUNDAY 22ND OCTOBER

Tonic Lounge Gian Arpino, DJ Kinetic 8pm $10/free before 9pm UN House Bass Injection DJ Riot, Static Duo, DJ Scatz, K-Nos 10pm $25 Vegas Bar Rocknroll DJs midnight members free Victoria Cross Bar Sunset Breaks Bass Kleph, Defcon 1, Andrew Wowk, Andreas, Paul Master 3pm The Watershed Remedy Soleman + guests 10pm The World Bar Wham!

8pm $15/free before 10pm Yu Electric Disco

STARFUCKERS

Phoenix Bar Loose Ends DJ Matt Vaughan & guests Steve Allkins & Sveta 10pm $5

Annandale Hotel Weekend Porch Sessions 3pm free Beach Road Hotel Rex Sets 5pm free The Bourbon Superstylin DJs: Mo’Funk, Julian Jason 7pm free Bungalow 8 Sundays at Bungalow 8 Andy Stanley 2pm free Columbian Hotel Arveaux DJs: Doug James, David Di Clemente 2pm free Clovelly Hotel DJ Chad 3.30pm free Golden Sheaf Hotel Soda Bar Strawberry Sundaze DJs Jeff Fellows & Ju Ju 4pm free Greenwood Hotel Sounds on Sunday Hunter Bar Daydreams Day Club Yoshi, Chia, Suae, Keely 5.30am $15/$10 LadyLux Smut The Loft Freeform DJs: Mr Smith, Somatik, Jimi Polar midday free Moulin Rouge Paris Cartel Andy Van, Tony Venuto, Toi, Chris Rawlings 10pm $10 Opera Bar DJ Daddyjazz 1.30pm free Sunset session with DJ Shaun Keble 5.30pm free

THEATRE OF DISCO

Gasworks, Albion Hotel Love Tattoo with DJ Stephen Allkins, Cardboard Funk (Brendan Fing & Husky), DJ James Taylor & MC Losty, DJ Kemuri 10pm $20 Golden Sheaf Hotel DJ Mr DJ midnight free Golden Sheaf Hotel Soda Bar DJs Matt Hoare & Joe Smith 9pm free Golden Street Palace Tikelz, Peter Gunz, Fly Girl Tee, J.Lyrics free Greenwood Hotel Khaki Party 9pm $20 Home Terrace Strangeways Dave 54 & Timmy Trumpet 11pm $20 Hotel Bondi Zinc Bar DJ Rob Bango midnight free Hotel Chambers Red Room 8pm free Hotel Ingleburn Karaoke Idol + KJ/DJ Mel 8pm free Hunter Bar Daydreams Day Club Yoshi, Chia, Suae, Keely 5.30am $15/$10 Intersection Tavern DJ Zoc 8pm free Jackson’s on George 4play 10pm Kinselas Hotel

The Boogaloo Crew, DJ Abel Toro 10pm free The Loft Loft Nights DJs: Lippo, Noodles 6pm free Mandarin Club Berserk DJ Simon, Dasein, VJ Damage, DJ Jaimz, DJ Virulent 10pm $10 Melt Cool Fever DJs Qjumper, Simon Caldwell & Dale Stephens 8pm $10/free before 10pm Mona Vale Hotel Cube Saturdays DJ Dave Manna 10pm free Moulin Rouge Moulin Nights $10 before 11pm/$15 after Mylk Lounge The Cut Are On Special Jimmy 2sox, Jamie Kaye, Cut DJs, Tim Sea Newtown Hotel Totally Clueless 9.30pm free Opera Bar Boogaloo Allstars 8.30pm free Peppermint Lounge Peppermint Saturdays Q Bar Hayden Keys, Dan Newling 9pm $20/members free The Roxy Roxy Saturdays Ruby Rabbit Mo Funk, Elroy, Etts & Oscar 10pm $15 Sackville Hotel DJ Man about Town10pm free

STEPHEN ALLKINS

Phoenix Bar Loose Ends DJ Matt Vaughan & guests Steve Allkins & Sveta 10pm $5 The Roxy Sunday Social Club 3pm free Sackville Hotel Ray Man live 2pm free Skygarden Roofbar Sorted Sundayze Slip Inn The Garden Tonic Lounge DJ Tony Vass juke box classics & mad party tunes 8pm free V Bar The Temple Chia, Shadower, Jumping Jack, Rossco, Matrix, Patrick Carerra, Slim 2pm $15 Vanilla Room All White on the Night Two Up, Connor, Solacell 4pm free Verandah Bar Sorted Sundayze

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:: World Bar :: 24 Bayswater Rd Kings Cross 93577700

kink 07:10:06 :: Arthouse :: 275 Pitt St City 92841200

kooky 08:10:06 :: Club 77 :: 77 William St Kings Cross 93613387

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LOOKING FOR AN EXCITING NEW CAREER?

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17 TRACKS featuring guests: Fatlip (The Pharcyde), Pegz, Red Ghost, Urthboy (the Herd, Elefant traks), Raph Boogie (Mnemonic Ascent), Slap 618, BVA (F&D, Mnemonic Ascent), DJ FX, Ivens (Awakenings), Derm and Toroniks

HITTING STORES OCT 14

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bandits 06:10:06 :: Phoenix Bar :: 34 Oxford St Darlinghurst 93311936

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The Civic Hotel :: 388 Pitt St City 80807000

Ken Cloud DJ Profile YR MONIKER – WHAT’S THE DEA L?: Ken Cloud – when the coach was giving out the jersey’s, he said, you’ re the Cloud, get on the bench, and that’ s where I sat for the first quarter of my career…

WHAT’S YR SOUND?: I’m pretty tough on everyone out there, we play to win, it’s a take no prisoners sort of attitude, when everyone else is giving 110%, I’m giving 120%!

WHEN/WHY DID YOU DECIDE TO TAKE ON THE DECKS AND START DJING: I just love the game, it’s the worl d game and you can’t beat the worl d game.

When the forwards go forward and the backs do there job, its just awe some, Bloody AWESOME FIVE RECORDS THAT DEFINE YOU: Not really into music but I’ll give it a go for ya…

1. The Rapture ‘Whoo Alright Yeah.. Uh Huh’ – I like the title.

2. Charles Webster ‘Sweet Butte rfly’ – I like the way he sings Butte rfly 3. Micheal Jackson ‘She’s Out of My Life’ – personal reasons.

4. T Rex ‘Telegram Sam’ – it rolls off the tongue nice like.

5. Poxymusic CDR – friend gave it to me, not bad..

BEST GIG YOU’VE EVER PLAYED ?: Hard to say as it’s been a long care er, 8 years in the first grade, and 16 years all up. But the best games are the ones you score in, there’s noth ing like scoring a few goals, especially after a bit of drought!

AND THE WORST?: There has been many hurdles on the way to the top, I’ve put them behind me though, you can’t think about the negative, you get around the back , and give it everything… you go for it!

IF YOUR MUSIC WAS A SOUNDT RACK FOR A FILM, WHAT WOU LD IT BE ABOUT?: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang – I’ve love d that film since I was a kid, it’s abou t a car, and I can relate to that little car…

Had a look for that film on that inter web thing other day but my film didn’t come up.

WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU WROTE ON YOUR HAND: There’s no I in Team!

AND WE CAN SEE YOU: I’m training really fucking FUCKING hard (excuse my language but it means everything to me) for the Mad Rack et 8th Birthday. Just like to send a big shout out to the kiddies, go for Gold , and please let everyone know that DREAMS DO COME TRUE! (eve n bad ones!)

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